# Leonardo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/leonardo/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 96,207 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 96,066 / 141 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7,210, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Leonardo.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | 12,744 |
| 1998 | 5 | 15,500 |
| 1999 | 5 | 15,798 |
| 2000 | 8 | 11,346 |
| 2001 | 8 | 11,590 |
| 2002 | 5 | 17,008 |
| 2004 | 10 | 10,367 |
| 2005 | 7 | 13,851 |
| 2008 | 5 | 19,261 |
| 2010 | 7 | 14,342 |
| 2012 | 8 | 12,906 |
| 2014 | 5 | 18,079 |
| 2015 | 5 | 18,009 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14,828 |
| 2022 | 6 | 14,579 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,641 | 149 |
| 2012 | 2,684 | 152 |
| 2013 | 2,909 | 131 |
| 2014 | 3,450 | 114 |
| 2015 | 3,823 | 103 |
| 2016 | 4,325 | 96 |
| 2017 | 4,131 | 97 |
| 2018 | 4,223 | 93 |
| 2019 | 4,427 | 86 |
| 2020 | 4,104 | 86 |
| 2021 | 4,105 | 87 |
| 2022 | 4,367 | 75 |
| 2023 | 4,030 | 84 |
| 2024 | 3,966 | 84 |
| 2025 | 3,789 | 91 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 228 | 215 |
| 2012 | 225 | 230 |
| 2013 | 283 | 196 |
| 2014 | 315 | 178 |
| 2015 | 366 | 160 |
| 2016 | 453 | 132 |
| 2017 | 433 | 136 |
| 2018 | 504 | 119 |
| 2019 | 494 | 116 |
| 2020 | 428 | 128 |
| 2021 | 498 | 116 |
| 2022 | 439 | 127 |
| 2023 | 439 | 122 |
| 2024 | 439 | 124 |
| 2025 | 389 | 126 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Леона́рдо
- Chinese: 莱昂纳多
- Hindi: लियोनार्डो
- Japanese: レオナルド
- Korean: 레오나르도
- Russian: Леона́рдо

## People named Leonardo

- Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer (born 1974)
- Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian association football player
- Leonardo Sandri, Catholic nuncio
- Leonardo Bittencourt, German footballer
- Leonardo Loredan, 75th Doge of Venice (1436-1521), 1501-1521
- Leonardo Ulloa, Argentine association football player
- Leonardo Balerdi, Argentine footballer (born 1999)
- Leonardo Mayer, Argentine tennis player (born 1987)
- Leonardo Favio, Argentine singer, actor and filmmaker (1938–2012)
- Leonardo Sbaraglia, Argentine actor
- Marcos Leonardo, Brazilian association football player
- Leonardo Henriques da Silva, Brazilian association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.