Leondra
Feminine
Leondra is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 758 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Leondra is recorded for boys and girls alike and is built on the Greek word for a lion with an ending American naming attached freely. The lions of North Africa, the ones the Romans shipped to the arena, survived far longer than most people assume.
How old is the name Leondra?
Leondra first appears in US birth records in 1945 — 80 years ago. The typical Leondra alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 700 people named Leondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leondra most popular?
Leondra peaked in 1967, reaching #2632 nationally. See the whole 1967 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Leondra
The Barbary lion was the North African population, large and heavily maned, and it was hunted in the Roman arenas in enormous numbers. It did not go extinct then. It survived in the Atlas mountains into the twentieth century, with the last confirmed wild shooting in Morocco in the nineteen-forties, and by then a collection of them was being kept in the Moroccan royal menagerie, animals given as tribute by mountain tribes over generations. Their descendants are in zoos now and are the subject of a long argument about how much Barbary ancestry they actually carry. A lion that Rome could not exhaust was finished off by rifles within living memory.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front is the Greek and Latin word for a lion, which is documented and sits inside Leon, Leonard and Leonora. The ending is a free one and this particular pairing is not recorded.
Pronouncing Leondra
lee-ON-druh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The first is light enough to disappear in quick speech.
Nicknames for Leondra
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1945
- Most girls named
- 199537 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2632reached in 1967
- Change vs 2013
- −28.6%5 in 2017, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Leondras among us
people named Leondra are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Leondra sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Leo comes off the front as a short form and works for a child of either sex.
- The stress is unmistakable, so first attempts land correctly.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it leaves a question open rather than closing it.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every child with it is a girl.
- Leandra and Leondra are close enough to be confused constantly.
- No origin is documented for the pairing, so the meaning question belongs to the front half only.
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Frequently asked
- How many Leondras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Leondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Leondra in 2025?
- Leondra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Leondra with classmates?
- Leondra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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