Leonie is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Leonie is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Leonie. In the SmartGenius ranking, Leonie is #2,867 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Leonie.
Leonie is not an overly common name, 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 1995, where the name Leonie was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Leonie and were born in the USA in 1995, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Leonie even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1889, it ranked on position 524 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Leonie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Leonie has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 54 times and thus landed on position 2,698 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 54 girls with the name Leonie, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Leonie in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 299 women and girls named Leonie, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 299 women and girls named Leonie live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois and Louisiana. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Leonie. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Leonie lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Leonie and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Leonie relative to its female population is Louisiana. And even there, only one in 59,108 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Leonie.
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 six letters, the name Leonie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Leonie 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 Leonie, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Orange
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Leonie
Leonie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
O
N
I
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
I
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. Leonie sounds like this:
