Leontine

Last seen for girls in 2015 at #14,482

Peak · girls
1887 · 11 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,150
since 1883

Leontine over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Leontine has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201887peak #693, 1887girls
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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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2015#14,4826
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1980#10,3925
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1978#7,6497
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1975#7,1737
1974#8,7755
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1970#7,0706
1969#5,0579
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1967#5,4577
1966#5,8096
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1962#6,5785
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1960#4,7738
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1958#6,1035
1957#3,93010
1956#3,91010
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1954#4,6557
1953#3,68710
1952#3,20112
1951#4,8336
1950#5,3015
1949#3,39310
1948#4,6516
1947#2,89813
1946#2,88012
1945#3,3888
1944#2,76211
1943#3,2499
1942#2,81711
1941#2,27214
1940#3,2088
1939#3,1458
1938#2,9409
1937#2,57011
1936#2,38612
1935#2,57511
1934#2,18714
1933#2,40412
1932#1,81719
1931#1,87618
1930#1,49927
1929#2,30114
1928#1,78422
1927#2,69912
1926#1,48330
1925#2,19117
1924#1,72325
1923#1,42832
1922#1,64626
1921#1,47631
1920#1,40732
1919#1,74522
1918#1,36032
1917#1,30731
1916#1,40827
1915#1,67220
1914#1,38521
1913#1,09125
1912#1,62012
1911#1,24114
1910#1,26713
1909#1,4719
1908#1,20312
1907#94516
1906#96515
1905#96815
1904#1,17010
1903#76020
1902#1,13310
1901#88114
1900#78022
1899#93512
1898#71921
1897#93112
1896#95012
1895#81515
1894—
1893#95510
1892#72616
1891#89310
1890#9409
1889#75712
1888#8949
1887#69311
1886#73110
1885—
1884#1,0245
1883#8176
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First appearance
1883

The first year at least five girls were named Leontine! It came in at #817, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1884–1885, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Leontine is popular in 1887

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Leontine
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2015
  • Biggest jump: 373 spots in 1903 (#1,133 → #760)
  • Biggest drop: 410 spots in 1904 (#760 → #1,170)
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1883
  • Peaked 1887 at #693 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1894, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 20 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1886–1893
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,322
  • Highest: 1 in 12,322 girls born in 1898 were named Leontine (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 297,516 girls born in 2015 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #693 in 1887, was only 1 in 13,271 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 21.0% of all girls named Leontine (241) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s53#693 (1887)#819
1890s117#719 (1898)#874
1900s143#760 (1903)#1,028
1910s217#1,091 (1913)#1,410
1920s241#1,407 (1920)#1,814
1930s141#1,499 (1930)#2,340
1940s102#2,272 (1941)#3,152
1950s65#3,201 (1952)#4,453
1960s35#4,773 (1960)#5,535
1970s25#7,070 (1970)#7,667
1980s5#10,392 (1980)#10,392
1990s0——
2000s0——
2010s6#14,482 (2015)#14,482

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Leontine in 1887

girls
#693
11 births · 1 in 13,271 girls

Top girls' names in 1887

  1. #1Mary9,888
  2. #2Anna4,227
  3. #3Elizabeth2,681
  4. #4Emma2,647
  5. #5Margaret2,419
  6. #6Minnie2,215
  7. #7Bertha2,037
  8. #8Clara1,984
  9. #9Florence1,964
  10. #10Ida1,929
  11. #693Leontine11
More about 1887

girls

145,981 girls got a published name in 1887; 1 in 13,271 of them was named Leontine, which outranked 46.9% of the 1,306 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Leontine
  1. #661Viva12
  2. #661Wilhelmine12
  3. #661Zada12
  4. #693Leontine11
  5. #693Adline11
  6. #693Amie11
  7. #693Beth11
  8. #733Alyce10
  9. #733Annis10
  10. #733Bennie10

Tied with 39 names at #693; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1886
Risers
  1. ↑ 571Ossie#1,108 → #537
  2. ↑ 522Albertine#1,108 → #586
  3. ↑ 475Grayce#1,108 → #633
  4. ↑ 447Berenice#1,108 → #661
  5. ↑ 447Elfrieda#1,108 → #661
Fallers
  1. ↓ 591Faith#556 → #1,147
  2. ↓ 541Jo#606 → #1,147
  3. ↓ 541Leanna#606 → #1,147
  4. ↓ 541Manie#606 → #1,147
  5. ↓ 430Drusilla#606 → #1,036

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

See the top 100 for 1887 →