Leona

Where Leona comes from

From Leon + -a.
— Wiktionary's entry for Leona
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #119 among girls — 137 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1905
    Peak, #69
    1,082 babies named Leona — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1919
    Leona Woods born
    American nuclear physicist
  4. 1955
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #388.
  5. 1985
    Leona Lewis born
    British singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, a feminine form of Leo through Leon.
Namesakes
  • Leona Lewis · British singer, born 1985
  • Leona Woods · American nuclear physicist, 1919–1986
  • Leona Paraminski · Croatian actress, born 1979
  • Leona Vicario · Mexican spy, 1789–1842
  • Leona Helmsley · American hotel owner, 1920–2007

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.