Leontine

Where Leontine comes from

Leontine 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. 1883
    First appearance
    #817 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #693
    11 babies named Leontine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    Leontine Sagan born
    Austrian-Hungarian stage and film director
  4. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1959
    Leontine van der Lienden born
    cyclist
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Leontine Sagan · Austrian-Hungarian stage and film director, 1889–1974
  • Leontine van der Lienden · cyclist, born 1959
  • Leontine Ruiters · Dutch television presenter and actor, born 1967
  • Leontine T. Kelly · American United Methodist bishop, 1920–2012

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.