Leonore
The girl's name Leonore has been in the national records since 1881, with 2,313 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 640 Leonores are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Leonore
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,313
- Estimated living today
- 640
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1928
- Best rank
- 870th
- Rank in 2025
- 11,932nd
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Leonores are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,313 babies given the name since 1881, about 640 are alive — 28 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Leonores
- Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland (born 2014)Swedish princess, eldest child of Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill
- Leonore Gewessler (born 1977)Austrian politician and minister
- Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau (born 2006)Member of the Dutch Royal family
- Leonore Annenberg (1918–2009)American businesswoman
- Léonore Perrus (born 1984)French fencer
People named Leonore with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Leonore is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Leonore is most concentrated in New York (8.7×), Pennsylvania (3.0×), Illinois (1.4×), California (0.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1928
The most popular girls’ names the year Leonore peaked:
Leonore elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Léonore +1 spelling | 4,340 | 285th |
| Belgium girls | Léonore +1 spelling | 514 | 252nd |
| Switzerland girls | Léonore +1 spelling | 242 | 321st |
| England and Wales girls | Leonore | 41 | 3,178th |
| France boys | Leonore | 5 | 774th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Leonore: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Leonore | 43 | 0.003% | 484th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Léonore | 28 | 0.002% | 865th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Léonore | 151 | 0.035% | 92nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Leonore | 19 | 0.004% | 416th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Leonore | 1 | 0.002% | 191st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Leonore is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 45 of them.
Leonore: rank by region
In 2025, Leonore was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Léonore | 238 | 23 |
| Flanders | Leonore | 391 | 13 |
| Wallonia | Léonore | 226 | 12 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Leonore appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (Léonore, 86th), Province of Liège (Léonore, 138th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (Leonore, 193rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Leonore by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 27 | 240th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Leonore among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Leonore | 25 | 95 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Leonore against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.