Leonard
Leonard is ranked 673rd among boys in 2024 (404 births). Its best rank was 37th, in 1923.
- Rank in 2024
- #673up 19 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4040.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19215,650 births
- Best rank
- #37in 1923
- Since 1880
- 295,296people given the name
The story in the numbers
293,884 boys have been named Leonard in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 5,650 births — 0.51% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 404 births in 2024, against 5,650 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 78 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,412 girls have also been given it, 0.48% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Leonard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,144 | |
| 1890s | 3,166 | |
| 1900s | 5,022 | |
| 1910s | 31,878 | |
| 1920s | 53,793 | |
| 1930s | 39,214 | |
| 1940s | 44,286 | |
| 1950s | 43,553 | |
| 1960s | 28,439 | |
| 1970s | 15,803 | |
| 1980s | 10,467 | |
| 1990s | 6,268 | |
| 2000s | 3,918 | |
| 2010s | 3,933 | |
| 2020s | 2,000 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Leonard was the 39th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Leonard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alvinpeak 1927
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Bernardpeak 1924
- Raymondpeak 1924
- Lloydpeak 1918
- Wilbertpeak 1922
- Norrispeak 1924
- Ralphpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.