Leon
Leon places #138 across the country in 2025, and gathering speed. The peak was 1924, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Leon carries
Leon’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Leon, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Leon since 1880
Leon peaked in 1924 at #76; #138 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Leon is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Leon runs strongest in Vermont at 0.66% in 2025, then Hawaii and Alaska.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Leon
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
George
#126 in 2025 · Greek
Margaret
#112 in 2025 · Greek
Leo
#19 in 2025 · Greek
Eleanor
#12 in 2025 · Greek
Lydia
#92 in 2025 · Greek
Louis
#249 in 2025 · Teutonic
Zoe
#31 in 2025 · Greek
Chloe
#23 in 2025 · Greek
Browse: names starting with L · Greek names · all names
About Leon
How popular is the name Leon?
Leon places #138 across the country in 2025, and gathering speed. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Leon mean?
The gloss on record reads “lion”, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Leon?
Nearest by the published recipe: George, Margaret and Leo. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Leon’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Leon earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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