Leonie
Leonie is a girl's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 2,276th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,276th. About 1,400 Leonies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Leonie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,231
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 2,276th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,276th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Leonies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,231 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,400 are alive — 61 in every hundred. Roughly 860 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From French Léonie, from Latin Leonia, feminine of Leonius, derived from leo (“lion”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Leonies
- Sarah-Léonie Cysique (born 1998)French judoka
- Leonie Benesch (born 1991)German actress
- Leonie Maier (born 1992)German footballer
- Leonie Rysanek (1926–1998)(1926-1998) opera singer
- Leonie Swann (born 1975)German writer
- Léonie Adams (1899–1988)American poet
- Leonie Taylor (1870–1936)American archer
- Léonie Geisendorf (1914–2016)architect
People named Leonie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Leonie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Leonie is most concentrated in Louisiana (6.4×), California (4.1×), New York (2.9×), Florida (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Leonie peaked:
Leonie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Léonie +1 spelling | 71,575 | 31st |
| Austria girls | Leonie | 14,055 | 1st |
| Switzerland girls | Leonie +1 spelling | 6,936 | 17th |
| Belgium girls | Leonie +1 spelling | 3,737 | 55th |
| England and Wales girls | Leonie | 2,660 | 244th |
| Italy girls | Leonie | 736 | — |
| Ireland girls | Leonie | 501 | 211th |
| Scotland girls | Leonie | 282 | 238th |
| Poland girls | Leonie | 61 birth registrations | 383rd |
| New Zealand girls | Leonie | 52 | 99th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Leonie | 13 | 351st |
| France boys | Léonie | 5 | 4,123rd |
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.
Leonie: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Leonie | 5,667 | 0.455% | 4th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Léonie | 409 | 0.033% | 182nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Léonie | 722 | 0.166% | 23rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Leonie | 80 | 0.018% | 210th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Leonie | 24 | 0.037% | 64th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Léonie | 16 | 0.025% | 110th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Leonie | 17 | 0.457% | 1st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Léonie | 1 | 0.027% | 14th |
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, Leonie is most concentrated in Appenzell Innerrhoden, where 0.72% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Leonie: rank by region
In 2025, Leonie was given 5 times or more in 4 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Leonie | 45 | 88 |
| Flanders | Léonie | 64 | 72 |
| Wallonia | Léonie | 40 | 65 |
| Wallonia | Leonie | 452 | 5 |
In 2024, Leonie was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Leonie | 8 | 1 |
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Leonie | 8 | 24 |
In 2025, Leonie was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podlaskie | Leonie | 122 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Leonie appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (Léonie, 21st), Province of Namur (Léonie, 25th), Province of East Flanders (Leonie, 30th), Province of Antwerp (Leonie, 32nd), Province of Hainaut (Léonie, 33rd), Province of Limburg (Léonie, 41st), Province of West Flanders (Léonie, 44th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Léonie, 48th), Province of Walloon Brabant (Léonie, 50th), Province of Liège (Léonie, 51st), Province of East Flanders (Léonie, 68th), Province of West Flanders (Leonie, 71st), Province of Limburg (Leonie, 94th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Leonie, 97th) and Province of Antwerp (Léonie, 160th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.
Leonie by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 734 | 21st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Leonie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Leonie | 8,879 | 17,027 |
| the Netherlands boys | Leonie | — | 332 |
| Finland girls | Leonie +1 spelling | 91 | 155 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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
Leonie 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.