Leona

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A female given name from Latin, a feminine form of Leo through Leon

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Leona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.2K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 10K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈280,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
410 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 770 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LeonaLatin(measured from records)
러나Hangul(measured from records)
ลีโอน่าThai(measured from records)
ლეონაGeorgian(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

female equivalent of león (“lioness”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Leona is read(measured from records)

Leona is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English79%

    A female given name from Latin, a feminine form of Leo through Leon.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Feminine form of Leo or Leon; lioness.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Spanish6.0%

    female equivalent of león (“lioness”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Leona counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Leona is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈280,000 est.≈1 in 4.9K—Leona22
US United States#73830,2911 in 11K30KLeona410
CZ Czechia—13,9061 in 77014K—4
PH Philippines—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 10K—Leona64
GB United Kingdom#717≈9,100 est.≈1 in 7.2KlistedLeona173
SE Sweden—3,0091 in 3.4K3KLeona30
HR Croatia—2,0551 in 2.1K4K—3
IE Ireland#307≈1,300 est.≈1 in 4K—Leona71
GY Guyana—1891 in 4K189—5

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Leona is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Philippines, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Leonã, Léona, Leonà, Leôna, Leóna

  • Russian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Russia, United States, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Czech, Polish

    Also written Леона, Leóna, Leöna, Lêona, Leôna

  • Croatian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Sweden, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Леона, Лиона, Liona, Léona

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Léona, Leonã

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Also written Léona

  • Hindi given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written লিওনা

  • Greek given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Peru

    Also written Lèona, Léona, Λεωνα

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Leona is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Leona är en feminin form av → Leon eller en kortform av → Leonora. Namnet hade en viss popularitet i slutet av 1800-talet och är nu på uppåtgående. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 28 september.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Latinate feminine form of pLeo.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Leona Vicario, b. 1789Leona Roberts, b. 1879Leona Woods, b. 1919Leona Helmsley, b. 1920Leona Mitchell, b. 1949Leona Azabu, b. 1967Leona Aglukkaq, b. 1967Leona Marlin-Romeo, b. 1973Leona Paraminski, b. 1979Leona Lewis, b. 1985

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 106 sources across 55 countries.

Official registers attesting Leona
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202030K#1,246
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—14K#165
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—7K#185
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20214K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3K#830
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20212.1K#359
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.4K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025723—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025189#406
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202092#1,246

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Leona come from?
female equivalent of león (“lioness”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Leona mean?
In English, A female given name from Latin, a feminine form of Leo through Leon.
Is Leona a male or female name?
Leona is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Leona?
In the etymology graph, Leola, Leontina and Leontyne are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Leona have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 284 thousand people named Leona in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leona.
Where is Leona most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leona is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 770 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Leona?
In the United States, the national register counted 30,291 people named Leona in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Leona compared with other names?
In Ireland, Leona is the 307th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Leona” — the 307th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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