Leona is the feminine form of Leon, a Greek name meaning ‘lion’. The name is documented since at least the 6th century BC by King Leon of Sparta.
Leona is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Leona isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Leona ranks 551. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Leona. In the entire USA, approximately 89,963 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Leona. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Leona is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their child Leona. This means that several girls named Leona have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Leona has reached its best rank of #66 multiple times, most recently in 1905. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Leona one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Leona was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Leona will be Leona. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Leona in 2022 – in fact 577 to be precise, confirming Leona as is still a very popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #488 among all girls‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2001, when only 90 baby girls were named Leona.
The name Leona may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Leona is apparently especially popular in North Dakota. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 449 women in North Dakota is called Leona. In total, that’s 1,162 women who feel addressed when the name Leona is shouted loudly across North Dakota and who ensure that their name makes it to #131 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Leona as the answer a total of 89,963 times. This places Leona at #363 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Leona as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With five letters, the name Leona is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Leona and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Leona, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Orange
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Leona
Leona
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
O
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
E
O
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Leona sounds like this:
