Leone

Where Leone comes from

Leone hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1509
    Leone Leoni born
    Italian artist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1904
    Peak, #333
    97 babies named Leone — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1909
    Leone Ginzburg born
    Italian writer and activist
  5. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,022.
  6. 2009
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Leone Leoni · Italian artist, 1509–1590
  • Leone Ginzburg · Italian writer and activist, 1909–1944
  • Leone Nakarawa · Fijian rugby union player, born 1988
  • Leone Giraldoni · Italian operatic baritone, 1824–1897
  • Leone Pompucci · Film director and screenwriter, born 1961

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.