# Leonor (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/leonor/  
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 | 6,183 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 6,173 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 376, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | 4,634 |
| 2012 | 23 | 5,812 |
| 2013 | 28 | 4,967 |
| 2014 | 32 | 4,511 |
| 2015 | 40 | 3,816 |
| 2016 | 44 | 3,560 |
| 2017 | 45 | 3,460 |
| 2018 | 47 | 3,371 |
| 2019 | 41 | 3,697 |
| 2020 | 57 | 2,873 |
| 2021 | 43 | 3,592 |
| 2022 | 59 | 2,883 |
| 2023 | 60 | 2,840 |
| 2024 | 93 | 2,078 |
| 2025 | 81 | 2,267 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 5 | 4,678 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,052 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 2,275 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,991 |
| 2013 | 20 | 1,537 |
| 2014 | 24 | 1,341 |
| 2015 | 21 | 1,497 |
| 2016 | 23 | 1,416 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,411 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,436 |
| 2019 | 29 | 1,153 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,352 |
| 2021 | 31 | 1,102 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 24 | 1,325 |
| 2024 | 17 | 1,743 |
| 2025 | 28 | 1,166 |

## People named Leonor

- Leonor, Princess of Asturias, 38th princess of Asturias and heiress to the Spanish throne
- Astolphe-Louis-Léonor de Custine, Marquis de Custine, French aristocrat and writer (1790-1857)
- Leonor Varela, Chilean actress
- Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist (1875–1949)
- Léonor Serraille, French writer and director
- Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, (1553-1576)
- Leonor Sullivan, American politician (1902-1988)
- Leonor Orosa-Goquingco, Filipino dancer (1917–2005)
- Leonor Oyarzún, First Lady of Chile (1919–2022)
- Eleanor of Toledo, Duchess of Florence (1522-1562)
- Eleanor de Guzmán, Castilian noblewoman and long-term mistress to Alfonso XI of Castile
- Norah Borges, Argentine illustrator (1901-1998)

## 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.