Leonce

lay-onse

French, Greek

"lion"

Updated Tue Apr 28 2026

The name Leonce is currently ranked #943 in U.S. births. and peaked for boys at #882 in 1887. It is currently rising in popularity.

# 943 in the US

Leonce Rank in US Top 1000

Léonce de Mondoville
married lover of Delphine de Abbémar in Madame de Staël's epistolary novel Delphine (1802); in part inspired by the author's lover, Benjamin Constant
Léonce Poitrat
character in Céline's influential novel Mort à crédit (1936; "accountant at clinic, with an erection 'as hard as 36 biceps'")

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