Leonora is a distinctive choice, ranked #811 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Leonora in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#811
About the Name Leonora
Leonora is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 158 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #729 in 2022 — and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Leonora is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Leonora
Unlikely. With around 46 UK babies named Leonora per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Leonora in her class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Leonora is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 158 places over the last five years to #811 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Leonora is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Leonora include: Leonora Jiménez — Leonora Jiménez Monge is a Costa Rican beauty pageant titleholder and the original winner of 2005 Miss Asia Pacific International.; Leonora Anson, Countess of Lichfield — Leonora Mary Anson, Countess of Lichfield, is a lady-in-waiting to Anne, Princess Royal..
Leonora does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Leonoras in the wild.
46
UK babies named Leonora (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 158 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Leonora
Likely around 1 other Leonora in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Leonora
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Leonora Jiménez Monge is a Costa Rican beauty pageant titleholder and the original winner of 2005 Miss Asia Pacific International. She was dethroned because of her participation in Miss World 2005 and the Miss Asia Pacific title was passed to the 1st runner up, Evgeniya Lapova of Russia.
Leonora Mary Anson, Countess of Lichfield, is a lady-in-waiting to Anne, Princess Royal. She is the daughter of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and The Hon.
Leonora Howard King was a Canadian physician and medical missionary who spent 47 years practising medicine in China. She was the first Canadian doctor to work in China, where she died in 1925.
Leonora Sanvitale (Contessa di Scandiano) was a noblewoman and singer at the Este court at Ferrara, and along with her stepmother Barbara Sanseverino, was among the most "brilliant" noblewomen at the court. She joined the court in 1576 when she married Giulio Tiene, Count of Scandiano.
Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, born "Countess Leonora Christina Christiansdatter" til Slesvig og Holsten, was daughter to King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk and wife of the Steward of the Realm, the traitor Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. Renowned in Denmark since the 19th century for her posthumously published autobiography Jammers Minde, written secretly during two decades of solitary confinement in a royal dungeon, her intimate version of the major events she witnessed in Europe's history, interwoven with ruminations on her woes as a political prisoner, still commands popular interest and scholarly respect, and has virtually become the stuff of legend as retold and enlivened in Danish literature and art.
Leonora Duarte was a Baroque Flemish composer and musician, born in Antwerp. She belonged to a wealthy Portuguese-Jewish family who were major patrons of the arts and music.
Leonora Dori Galigaï was a French courtier of Italian origin, an influential favourite of the French regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII. Galigaï was married to Concino Concini, the later marquis and then marshal d'Ancre, during Marie's reign as queen mother and regent of France.