How Many People Are Named Leota?

1,568

people named Leota are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 217,975 people in the US has this name

Based on 10,447 babies named Leota in Social Security records from 1880 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#7,907

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,426

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Peak Year

1918

359 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Leota in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Leota alive today is about 74 years old, and 84% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 67 and 86 in 2025.

Under 30 62
4%
30 to 59 182
11.6%
60 and over 1,324
84.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Leota first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 359 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2024

🏆 Rank History

Leota has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #286, in 1880.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#286 (1880)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#408 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Leota alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Leota were born in Oklahoma than in any other state: about 89 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Leota was given 5.6 times as often in Kansas, 5.6 times in Oklahoma and 4 times in Iowa.

Oklahoma 89
Missouri 65
Illinois 49
Ohio 47
Michigan 43
Kansas 41
California 40
Iowa 37
West Virginia 34
Texas 31
Indiana 27
Pennsylvania 24
Arkansas 16
Nebraska 12
Kentucky 9
Colorado 7
Minnesota 5
Oregon 5
Washington 3
Virginia 3
Tennessee 3
Wisconsin 2
Louisiana 1
New York 1

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