Leone

Where Leone comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Leone.

  • Vowel-ended
Leone through the years
  1. 1509
    Leone Leoni born
    Italian artist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls, with 7 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1904
    Peak, #333
    97 babies named Leone, its best rank.
  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 on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.