# Leonid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/leonid/  
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 | Macedonian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 494 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 494 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 74, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Macedonian and Russian Леони́д (Leoníd) or Ukrainian Леоні́д (Leoníd), from Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας (Leōnídas). Cognate with the English historical name Leonidas.

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 5,107 |
| 2012 | 17 | 5,404 |
| 2013 | 20 | 4,735 |
| 2014 | 18 | 5,178 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,427 |
| 2016 | 27 | 3,941 |
| 2017 | 20 | 4,861 |
| 2018 | 22 | 4,551 |
| 2019 | 15 | 5,992 |
| 2020 | 18 | 5,155 |
| 2021 | 27 | 3,964 |
| 2022 | 30 | 3,738 |
| 2023 | 25 | 4,292 |
| 2024 | 25 | 4,278 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5,746 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,004 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,076 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,906 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Leonid

- Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
- Leonid Spirin, athletics competitor (1932–1982)
- Leonid Kinskey, American actor (1903-1998)
- Leonid Shamkovich, American chess player of Russian origin (1923–2005)
- Leonid Nikolaev, Assassin of Sergei Kirov (1904–1934)
- Leonid Shcherbakov, athletics competitor (1927–2004)
- Leonid Bartenyev, athletics competitor (1933–2021)
- Leonid Romanov, fencer
- Leonid Kreutzer, German musician (1884–1953)
- Leonid Lavrovsky, ballet dancer and choreographer at Mariinsky & Bolshoi (1905–1967)
- Leonid Feodorov, Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church (1879-1935)
- Leonid Bogdanov, fencer (1927–2021)

## 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.