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Leonardo vs Leondre

American parents have registered 96,207 Leonardos since 1880, against 703 Leondres. Leonardo is still ahead, with 3,789 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leonardo against Leondre, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leonardo Leondre

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Leonardo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Leonardo had 570 and Leondre had 26.

Side by side

  Leonardo Leondre
Total US births 96,207703
Most in one year 4,43330
Babies in 2025 3,7896
Estimated living today 93,000690
Median age today 1120
Peak year 20192000
Best rank 86th boys2,922nd boys
Rank in 2025 91st10,695th
First recorded 18851972
Girls / boys 141 / 96,0660 / 703

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Leondres alive today are over 20; half the Leonardos are over 11. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Leonardo Leondre
England and Wales 7,21021

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leonardo and Leondre.