Leonce

Last seen for boys in 2008 at #12,553

Peak · boys
1887 · 6 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
431
since 1882

Leonce over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Leonce has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201895peak #819, 1887boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2008#12,5535
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2005#11,4725
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1978#5,0596
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1975#4,3097
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1972#3,9637
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1969#3,3148
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1967#3,9665
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1964#4,0395
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1962#4,0335
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1960#4,0385
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1954#3,8275
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1951#3,0667
1950#3,0217
1949#2,6069
1948#2,44310
1947#3,7335
1946#2,9197
1945#3,3385
1944#2,8627
1943#2,9647
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1941#2,4919
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1939#2,28810
1938#2,8687
1937#2,6808
1936#2,8547
1935#2,39610
1934#3,2776
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1932#2,8498
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1930#2,44411
1929#2,7669
1928#2,8439
1927#1,87118
1926#2,72510
1925#1,74520
1924#3,0239
1923#4,2395
1922#3,2528
1921#3,5177
1920#2,45912
1919#2,38512
1918#2,69910
1917#2,28012
1916#2,54310
1915#1,78216
1914#2,4578
1913#2,0928
1912#2,5445
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1909#1,4405
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1907#1,2006
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1895#8727
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1892#1,0665
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1889#8786
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1887#8196
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1882#9435
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First appearance
1882

The first year at least five boys were named Leonce! It came in at #943, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1882–1886, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Leonce is popular in 1895

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Leonce
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2008
Rise & fade · boys
5 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1887 at #819 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1888, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · 1882–1895
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,770
  • Highest: 1 in 16,770 boys born in 1895 were named Leonce (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 408,030 boys born in 2008 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #819 in 1887, was only 1 in 16,902 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 24.8% of all boys named Leonce (107) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s17#819 (1887)#880
1890s12#872 (1895)#969
1900s11#1,200 (1907)#1,320
1910s81#1,782 (1915)#2,348
1920s107#1,745 (1925)#2,844
1930s67#2,288 (1939)#2,707
1940s59#2,443 (1948)#2,920
1950s19#3,021 (1950)#3,305
1960s28#3,314 (1969)#3,878
1970s20#3,963 (1972)#4,444
1980s0——
1990s0——
2000s10#11,472 (2005)#12,013

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.

Leonce in 1895

boys
#872
7 births · 1 in 16,770 boys

Top boys' names in 1895

  1. #1John8,320
  2. #2William7,277
  3. #3James5,335
  4. #4George4,289
  5. #5Charles3,633
  6. #6Frank3,012
  7. #7Joseph2,992
  8. #8Robert2,635
  9. #9Henry2,221
  10. #10Edward2,203
  11. #872Leonce7
More about 1895

boys

117,393 boys got a published name in 1895; 1 in 16,770 of them was named Leonce, which outranked 29.7% of the 1,241 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Leonce
  1. #795Vicente8
  2. #795Worth8
  3. #795Young8
  4. #872Leonce7
  5. #872Addie7
  6. #872Adelbert7
  7. #872Alford7
  8. #978Abel6
  9. #978Alf6
  10. #978Alois6

Tied with 105 names at #872; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1894
Risers
  1. ↑ 573Alma#1,074 → #501
  2. ↑ 463Delmar#954 → #491
  3. ↑ 453Connie#954 → #501
  4. ↑ 434Bradford#1,074 → #640
  5. ↑ 434Brady#1,074 → #640
Fallers
  1. ↓ 536Beverly#543 → #1,079
  2. ↓ 512Boss#567 → #1,079
  3. ↓ 498Verner#480 → #978
  4. ↓ 457Abel#521 → #978
  5. ↓ 457Justin#521 → #978

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1895 →