Masterpiece Generator Name Generator
How popular is the name Leonie?
Births per year, rank history and how many Leonies are alive today.
Leonie (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 610th in 2025 with 64 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1999, when 164 babies were given the name, the 244th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 936 in 2018 before climbing back to the 610th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Leonie is one spelling of a name also recorded as Leni; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Leonie you are most likely to meet is around 26 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Leonies born in England and Wales are between 12 and 30, and there are at least 4,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.3% chance that at least one of them will be called Leonie.
How many babies are named Leonie each year?
Includes all spellings: Leonie, Leni. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Leonie spelling rank?
Where does the Leni spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Leonie most popular?
Leonie peaked in 2005, when 165 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Leonie?
At least 4,200 people named Leonie in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Leonie?
Most living Leonies are between 12 and 30; the most common age is about 26. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Leonie becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.