Leonie
About Leonie
Leonie is a chic French and German form of a name that exists in a range of variations from Leona to Leonia to Leon to Leo to Lionel, all newly fashionable after a couple of generations in style limbo.
Pronunciation can be confusing: The first syllable can be pronounced as lee or lay, the second as on or own, and the accent can be on either the first or the second syllable or be evenly distributed over all three syllables of the name, so that it sounds like the male name Leon with an ee at the end. Take your pick, but know that others might often pick differently.
Aunt Leonie is a major character in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Leonie Hemsworth is the mother of Liam and Chris and Leonie is the name picked by Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel for their daughter.
Pronounced lee-O-nee.
As of October 2026, Leonie ranked #2291 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #547 in 1886, Nameberry popularity #494.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,849 | 29 | 16.2 |
| 2015 | #3,814 | 40 | 22.4 |
| 2016 | #2,723 | 64 | 36.1 |
| 2017 | #2,917 | 57 | 33 |
| 2018 | #2,858 | 59 | 34.7 |
| 2019 | #2,717 | 63 | 37.5 |
| 2020 | #2,645 | 64 | 39.6 |
| 2021 | #3,023 | 55 | 33.5 |
| 2022 | #3,057 | 54 | 32.9 |
| 2023 | #3,119 | 53 | 33 |
| 2024 | #2,443 | 74 | 45.7 |
| 2025 | #2,291 | 80 | 49.8 |
World rankings
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Leonie on lists
Famous Leonies
- Leonie Duquet (1916
1977), French nun
- Leonie Gilmour (1872
1933), American educator, editor, and journalist
- Leonie Adams (1899
1988), American poet
- Leonie Kramer (b. 1924)
Australian academic, educator and professor
- Leonie Rysanek (1926
1998), Austrian dramatic soprano
- Leonie Archer
British academic
- Leonie Brinkema (b. 1944)
American judge
- Leonie Abo (born 1945)
Bambunda author
- Leonie Sandercock (b. 1949)
Australian academic
- Leonie Frieda (b. 1956)
Swedish,born former model, translator and writer
- Leonie Short (b. 1956)
Australian politician
- Leonie Wood (b. 1961)
Australian journalist
- Leonie "Noni" Hazlehurst
Australian actress
- Leonie Joubert
freelance science writer
- Leonie Swann (b. 1975)
nom de plume of a German crime writer
- Myriam Leonie Mani (b. 1977)
Cameroonian runner
- Leonie Schaller (b. 1978)
German saxophonist
- Leonie Krail (b. 1986)
Swiss ice dancer
- Leonie Meijer (b. 1985)
singer,songwriter from the Netherlands
- Leonie Pravita (b. 1988)
"Masa Bodoh" "Cinta" Indonesian singer,songwriter
- Leonie Dawson
Australian founder of LeonieDawson.com (formerly GoddessGuidebook.com)
- Léonie Cassel (b. 2010)
daughter of Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel
Leonie in pop culture
- Leonie
Young ghost girl in the CBBC show Dani's Castle