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How popular is “Leon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Leon” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Leon” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Leon” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Leon” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Leon” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Leon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Leon” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 118 0.000585654 118 -100%
1881 121 0.000627958 121 -100%
1882 131 0.000591334 131 -100%
1883 140 0.000645322 140 -100%
1884 150 0.000616115 150 -100%
1885 146 0.000606176 146 -100%
1886 142 0.000556174 142 -100%
1887 147 0.000594199 147 -100%
1888 196 0.000654481 196 -100%
1889 184 0.000636797 184 -100%
1890 197 0.000653614 197 -100%
1891 156 0.000544174 6 150 -92%
1892 194 0.000580189 7 187 -93%
1893 216 0.00066416 5 211 -95%
1894 241 0.000711565 5 236 -96%
1895 219 0.000623896 219 -100%
1896 241 0.000674156 6 235 -95%
1897 237 0.000683082 8 229 -93%
1898 260 0.000681601 9 251 -93%
1899 188 0.00055419 188 -100%
1900 320 0.000710704 10 310 -94%
1901 208 0.000601483 208 -100%
1902 259 0.000669713 11 248 -92%
1903 287 0.000752886 287 -100%
1904 248 0.000614645 7 241 -94%
1905 283 0.000667576 9 274 -94%
1906 275 0.000641847 12 263 -91%
1907 333 0.000715529 9 324 -95%
1908 342 0.000699889 15 327 -91%
1909 387 0.000757007 10 377 -95%
1910 452 0.00076518 17 435 -92%
1911 555 0.000861429 15 540 -95%
1912 1016 0.001028276 10 1006 -98%
1913 1176 0.001034201 16 1160 -97%
1914 1431 0.001010348 17 1414 -98%
1915 2008 0.001095815 31 1977 -97%
1916 1981 0.001024081 27 1954 -97%
1917 2131 0.001061916 29 2102 -97%
1918 2472 0.001138588 30 2442 -98%
1919 2284 0.001082339 34 2250 -97%
1920 2596 0.001147331 42 2554 -97%
1921 2643 0.001132146 27 2616 -98%
1922 2552 0.001114821 31 2521 -98%
1923 2565 0.001114016 37 2528 -97%
1924 2714 0.001139565 37 2677 -97%
1925 2663 0.001141301 27 2636 -98%
1926 2676 0.001165553 29 2647 -98%
1927 2639 0.001137815 37 2602 -97%
1928 2486 0.001099544 26 2460 -98%
1929 2357 0.001075195 21 2336 -98%
1930 2424 0.001090277 23 2401 -98%
1931 2272 0.001079649 27 2245 -98%
1932 2323 0.001100275 28 2295 -98%
1933 2203 0.001101805 16 2187 -99%
1934 2325 0.001119502 19 2306 -98%
1935 2295 0.001098139 13 2282 -99%
1936 2291 0.001102726 9 2282 -99%
1937 2347 0.001101531 22 2325 -98%
1938 2369 0.001070699 14 2355 -99%
1939 2340 0.001061975 13 2327 -99%
1940 2331 0.001012297 13 2318 -99%
1941 2389 0.000980535 14 2375 -99%
1942 2561 0.000937471 11 2550 -99%
1943 2462 0.000872258 11 2451 -99%
1944 2158 0.000802207 7 2151 -99%
1945 2109 0.000794976 11 2098 -99%
1946 2345 0.000733889 7 2338 -99%
1947 2506 0.000695662 18 2488 -99%
1948 2396 0.000693986 13 2383 -99%
1949 2436 0.000699041 11 2425 -99%
1950 2442 0.000697046 14 2428 -99%
1951 2380 0.000646083 14 2366 -99%
1952 2385 0.000627961 8 2377 -99%
1953 2285 0.000592945 12 2273 -99%
1954 2157 0.000541863 12 2145 -99%
1955 2159 0.000537723 17 2142 -98%
1956 2056 0.000498662 13 2043 -99%
1957 1905 0.00045334 17 1888 -98%
1958 1942 0.000469774 10 1932 -99%
1959 1758 0.0004228 10 1748 -99%
1960 1666 0.000401077 19 1647 -98%
1961 1576 0.000380465 17 1559 -98%
1962 1557 0.000385838 15 1542 -98%
1963 1492 0.000376939 15 1477 -98%
1964 1498 0.000385327 16 1482 -98%
1965 1272 0.000350853 9 1263 -99%
1966 1321 0.000380072 13 1308 -98%
1967 1207 0.000355534 9 1198 -99%
1968 1205 0.000356676 8 1197 -99%
1969 1159 0.000333494 8 1151 -99%
1970 1231 0.000341327 10 1221 -98%
1971 1053 0.000306786 12 1041 -98%
1972 1041 0.000331213 16 1025 -97%
1973 1012 0.000335445 5 1007 -99%
1974 980 0.000322369 7 973 -99%
1975 894 0.000296086 10 884 -98%
1976 940 0.000309791 16 924 -97%
1977 960 0.00030222 12 948 -98%
1978 936 0.000294908 12 924 -97%
1979 922 0.000277127 15 907 -97%
1980 918 0.000266511 14 904 -97%
1981 882 0.000254959 13 869 -97%
1982 879 0.000250573 6 873 -99%
1983 794 0.000229259 10 784 -97%
1984 804 0.000230455 7 797 -98%
1985 734 0.000205654 7 727 -98%
1986 696 0.000195666 9 687 -97%
1987 669 0.000185544 7 662 -98%
1988 675 0.000182677 675 -100%
1989 647 0.000168295 647 -100%
1990 594 0.000150285 594 -100%
1991 586 0.000150439 5 581 -98%
1992 596 0.000155157 5 591 -98%
1993 531 0.000140838 531 -100%
1994 544 0.000146329 544 -100%
1995 503 0.000137351 503 -100%
1996 473 0.000129689 473 -100%
1997 436 0.000120251 436 -100%
1998 460 0.000125061 460 -100%
1999 463 0.000125343 463 -100%
2000 457 0.000120903 457 -100%
2001 469 0.000125288 469 -100%
2002 472 0.000126261 472 -100%
2003 495 0.000130184 495 -100%
2004 462 0.000120913 462 -100%
2005 470 0.000122242 470 -100%
2006 517 0.000130681 517 -100%
2007 543 0.000135829 543 -100%
2008 549 0.000139671 549 -100%
2009 628 0.00016439 628 -100%
2010 669 0.000181019 669 -100%
2011 696 0.000190279 696 -100%
2012 859 0.000234868 859 -100%
2013 1021 0.000280058 1021 -100%
2014 1081 0.00029166 1081 -100%
2015 1140 0.000308032 1140 -100%
2016 1313 0.000357893 1313 -100%
2017 1516 0.000423914 1516 -100%
2018 1605 0.000456498 1605 -100%
2019 1866 0.000537608 1866 -100%
2020 1929 0.000577445 6 1923 -99%
2021 2198 0.00064877 2198 -100%
2022 2380 0.00070349 7 2373 -99%
2023 2456 0.000741726 2456 -100%
2024 2547 0.000765209 2547 -100%

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