girl's name

Leonor

  • Origin Spanish
  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 8,846

France

#681

2025 births

Leonor is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 81 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Leonor is a name of Spanish origin.
  • Peaked in 2024, when 93 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 40,932 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1885.

Leonor over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1880s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Leonor by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1880s 12
1890s 53
1900s 136
1910s 422
1920s 804
1930s 550
1940s 507
1950s 549
1960s 599
1970s 579
1980s 447
1990s 445
2000s 324
2010s 363
2020s (to 2025) 393

How popular is Leonor?

In 2025, Leonor was given to 81 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Leonor is used

France #681 95 in 2025
England & Wales #1,175 28 in 2025
United States #2,260 81 in 2025
Canada #3,190 6 in 2024

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Leonor is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Léonor Léonor is Leonor written with an acute accent, used in France, where it ranks #1,104. 545

Names that peaked alongside Leonor

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Leonor also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Leonor over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Leonor in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

French
Léonore
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Eleonor

Sibling names for Leonor

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Leonor — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Leonor

How popular is the name Leonor?

In 2025, Leonor was given to 81 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Leonor a girl's or a boy's name?

Leonor is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Leonor most popular?

Leonor peaked in 2024, when 93 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Leonor a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Leonor currently ranks #681 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.