Leota

Where Leota comes from

Leota 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. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #282 among girls with 30 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1903
    Leota Lane born
    American actress
  3. 1925
    Leota Toombs born
    American artist and imagineer
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,264.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Leota Lane · American actress, 1903–1963
  • Leota Toombs · American artist and imagineer, 1925–1991

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.