Leoni

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Leoni: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Leoni: Recorded since 1981, it reached #320 in 1986, and it stood at #476 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
44years from first to last
#320highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#783
1997	#629
1998	#530
1999	#508
2000	#465
2001	#475
2002	#469
2003	#405
2004	#394
2005	#405
2006	#461
2007	#774
2008	#1065
2009	#1055
2010	#1294
2011	#1545
2012	#1809
2013	#1774
2014	#2464
2015	#3615
2016	#3609
2017	#3583
2018	#4684
2019	#2869
2020	#3899
2021	#5581
2022	#4645
2023	#3218
2024	#3318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #476 among girls in Scotland, #3318 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1981–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1981
First recorded at #533 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1981 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1981–1986
Highest recorded position: #320 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1986 (recorded 1981–1986).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3318 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Leoni appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 973 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1981.

Leoni across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Leoni's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#783 (1996)	#394 (2004)	#3318 (2024)	29 of 29	973 (1996–2024)	95 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#533 (1981)	#320 (1986)	#320 (1986)	3 of 6	16 (1981–1986)	9 (1986)

Leoni by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Leoni in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	177	4 of 10	44
2000sbusiest	655	10 of 10	66
2010s	115	10 of 10	12
2020s	26	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 66 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2006 and 2007, when recorded births fell by 42, from 84 to 42.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Leoni appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1981 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #320 in Republic of Ireland in 1986.

Leoni's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3318	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1809	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1545	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1294	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1055	30	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1065	28	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#774	42	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#461	84	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#405	93	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#394	95	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#405	89	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#469	66	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#475	64	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#465	64	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#508	57	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#530	51	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#629	40	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#783	29	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	9	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1981 and 2024, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #320, first reached in 1986.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 95 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 43 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kadie · #318, 31y
Kady · #318, 30y
Dante · #324, 30y
Issac · #324, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Marwa · #320, 42y
Sine · #320, 23y
Dayne · #319, 23y
Julien · #321, 31y

Leoni was ranked #320 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1986. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Leoni and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Leoni without appearing here.

Leoni moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3218 and #5687.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3218 and #5687.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3899 and #5493.
Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4645 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Leoni

Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3583 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #4684 and #1711.
Karin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3899 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3192.
Carol Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2869 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.
Finn Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3583 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.

Moved the opposite way to Leoni

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leoni went from #783 to #3318 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leoni went from #783 to #3318 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leoni went from #783 to #3318 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leoni went from #783 to #3318 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Leoni

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leoni went from #783 to #3318 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leoni went from #783 to #3318 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leoni went from #783 to #3318 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leoni went from #783 to #3318 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1981 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #320 in Republic of Ireland in 1986. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Leoni

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Leoni across 2 official records

Leoni by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Leoni across 2 official records

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