# Leone (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/leone/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,637 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 455 / 6,182 (93% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 161, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 8 | 13,288 |
| 2010 | 6 | 16,128 |
| 2012 | 5 | 18,417 |
| 2013 | 6 | 15,732 |
| 2015 | 8 | 12,488 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,750 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13,520 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,884 |
| 2019 | 5 | 16,974 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,769 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9,996 |
| 2022 | 12 | 8,824 |
| 2023 | 10 | 10,027 |
| 2024 | 5 | 16,655 |
| 2025 | 6 | 14,189 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,502 |
| 2012 | 11 | 7,348 |
| 2013 | 13 | 6,480 |
| 2014 | 19 | 4,987 |
| 2015 | 24 | 4,244 |
| 2016 | 12 | 6,975 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,942 |
| 2018 | 23 | 4,434 |
| 2019 | 21 | 4,733 |
| 2020 | 17 | 5,374 |
| 2021 | 22 | 4,576 |
| 2022 | 23 | 4,523 |
| 2023 | 25 | 4,291 |
| 2024 | 23 | 4,513 |
| 2025 | 25 | 4,204 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 1997 | 5 | 2,738 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2000 | 9 | 1,831 |
| 2001 | 6 | 2,466 |
| 2002 | 4 | 3,409 |
| 2003 | 5 | 3,099 |
| 2004 | 5 | 3,197 |
| 2006 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Leone

- Leone Nakarawa, Fijian rugby union player
- Gabriel Leone, Brazilian actor and musician
- Leone Pompucci, Film director and screenwriter
- Leone Brancaleone
- Régine Deforges, French film director and writer (1935–2014)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.