Leonore
Leonore is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 724th, in 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192870 births
- Best rank
- #724in 1906
- Since 1881
- 2,306people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,306 girls have been named Leonore in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 70 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leonore | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 41 | |
| 1890s | 109 | |
| 1900s | 125 | |
| 1910s | 424 | |
| 1920s | 595 | |
| 1930s | 308 | |
| 1940s | 254 | |
| 1950s | 144 | |
| 1960s | 107 | |
| 1970s | 86 | |
| 1980s | 43 | |
| 1990s | 10 | |
| 2010s | 29 | |
| 2020s | 31 |
In 1928, its biggest year
Leonore was the 876th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1928 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Leonore
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vernapeak 1918
- Eunicepeak 1921
- Elvirapeak 1920
- Eldapeak 1916
- Mariepeak 1920
- Louisepeak 1921
- Berylpeak 1920
- Nevapeak 1920
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.