Leone is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
Recently, the name Leone has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Leone. That means that a girl named Leone is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Leone.
Leone is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2007, where the name Leone was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Leone and were born in the USA in 2007 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Leone even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1905, it ranked on position 321 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Leone was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Leone has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 12 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #3,640 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 12 girls named Leone, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Leone'.
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 Leone 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 Leone 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 Leone, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Orange
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Leone
Leone
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
O
N
E
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
E
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. Leone sounds like this:
