Leonel
Last seen for girls in 1993 at #13,442 · #350 for boys in 2025, 942 births
Given to boys >99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 1,075 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 27,067since 1910
Leonel over time
Rank among boys' names. Leonel has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #350 | 942 | |
| 2024 | — | #317 | 1,084 | |
| 2023 | — | #308 | 1,075 | |
| 2022 | — | #327 | 1,032 | |
| 2021 | — | #373 | 868 | |
| 2020 | — | #345 | 929 | |
| 2019 | — | #346 | 972 | |
| 2018 | — | #358 | 923 | |
| 2017 | — | #365 | 903 | |
| 2016 | — | #373 | 891 | |
| 2015 | — | #389 | 821 | |
| 2014 | — | #430 | 709 | |
| 2013 | — | #463 | 606 | |
| 2012 | — | #445 | 618 | |
| 2011 | — | #460 | 581 | |
| 2010 | — | #451 | 594 | |
| 2009 | — | #473 | 578 | |
| 2008 | — | #484 | 572 | |
| 2007 | — | #481 | 556 | |
| 2006 | — | #465 | 578 | |
| 2005 | — | #422 | 633 | |
| 2004 | — | #471 | 535 | |
| 2003 | — | #524 | 447 | |
| 2002 | — | #545 | 407 | |
| 2001 | — | #533 | 410 | |
| 2000 | — | #524 | 423 | |
| 1999 | — | #544 | 373 | |
| 1998 | — | #561 | 351 | |
| 1997 | — | #590 | 303 | |
| 1996 | — | #562 | 325 | |
| 1995 | — | #591 | 301 | |
| 1994 | — | #576 | 320 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #568 | 325 |
| 1992 | — | #570 | 320 | |
| 1991 | — | #576 | 307 | |
| 1990 | — | #618 | 266 | |
| 1989 | — | #622 | 254 | |
| 1988 | — | #640 | 221 | |
| 1987 | — | #642 | 203 | |
| 1986 | — | #623 | 206 | |
| 1985 | — | #646 | 183 | |
| 1984 | — | #669 | 168 | |
| 1983 | — | #703 | 148 | |
| 1982 | — | #653 | 177 | |
| 1981 | — | #654 | 171 | |
| 1980 | — | #699 | 155 | |
| 1979 | — | #733 | 139 | |
| 1978 | — | #747 | 129 | |
| 1977 | — | #859 | 98 | |
| 1976 | — | #768 | 117 | |
| 1975 | — | #754 | 122 | |
| 1974 | — | #793 | 102 | |
| 1973 | — | #779 | 104 | |
| 1972 | — | #859 | 87 | |
| 1971 | — | #828 | 95 | |
| 1970 | — | #848 | 90 | |
| 1969 | — | #903 | 71 | |
| 1968 | — | #893 | 65 | |
| 1967 | — | #862 | 69 | |
| 1966 | — | #916 | 63 | |
| 1965 | — | #873 | 70 | |
| 1964 | — | #881 | 75 | |
| 1963 | — | #994 | 58 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,108 | 48 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,108 | 50 | |
| 1960 | — | #944 | 64 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,090 | 50 | |
| 1958 | — | #969 | 61 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,029 | 54 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,140 | 44 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,054 | 51 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,122 | 44 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,189 | 39 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,066 | 46 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,195 | 37 | |
| 1950 | — | #977 | 50 | |
| 1949 | — | #899 | 59 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,217 | 35 | |
| 1947 | — | #956 | 55 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,157 | 36 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,122 | 34 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,135 | 34 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,214 | 32 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,036 | 42 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,091 | 36 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,288 | 27 | |
| 1939 | — | #916 | 46 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,310 | 26 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,074 | 36 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,182 | 31 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,194 | 31 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,077 | 37 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,405 | 23 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,387 | 25 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,217 | 32 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,151 | 37 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,272 | 31 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,707 | 20 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,293 | 32 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,432 | 26 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,583 | 23 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,329 | 31 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,331 | 13 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,196 | 36 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,475 | 26 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,382 | 28 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,695 | 20 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,648 | 21 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,562 | 10 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,646 | 19 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,410 | 23 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,545 | 16 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,676 | 11 | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Leonel! It came in at #1,589, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Leonel
- 33 spots since 2024 (#317 → #350)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#345 → #350)
- 39 spots since 2015 (#389 → #350)
- Biggest jump: 394 spots in 1939 (#1,310 → #916)
- Biggest drop: 372 spots in 1940 (#916 → #1,288)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 2023 at #308 (1,075 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 69 yrs · run 1963–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,589 boys born in 2024 were named Leonel (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,813 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- Its best rank, #308 in 2023, was only 1 in 1,591 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.1% of all boys named Leonel (7,618) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 131 | #1,410 (1915) | #1,701 |
| 1920s | 266 | #1,196 (1922) | #1,500 |
| 1930s | 324 | #916 (1939) | #1,191 |
| 1940s | 390 | #899 (1949) | #1,112 |
| 1950s | 476 | #969 (1958) | #1,083 |
| 1960s | 633 | #862 (1967) | #948 |
| 1970s | 1,083 | #733 (1979) | #797 |
| 1980s | 1,886 | #622 (1989) | #655 |
| 1990s | 3,191 | #544 (1999) | #576 |
| 2000s | 5,139 | #422 (2005) | #492 |
| 2010s | 7,618 | #346 (2019) | #408 |
| 2020s | 5,930 | #308 (2023) | #337 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Leonel in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 12,385 of them was named Leonel, which outranked 89.6% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).