Leonardo
Leonardo reached its high-water mark in 2019 at number 86, and has been recorded 96,207 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 91st. About 93,000 Leonardos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Leonardo boys named Leonardo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 96,207
- Estimated living today
- 93,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 86th
- Rank in 2025
- 91st
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 141 / 96,066
How old the living Leonardos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 96,207 babies given the name since 1885, about 93,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 64,000 of them are children and 990 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Italian
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Leonardos
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974)American actor and producer
- Leonardo Bonucci (born 1987)Italian association football player
- Leonardo Araújo (born 1969)Brazilian association football player
- Leonardo Spinazzola (born 1993)Italian footballer
- Leonardo Bruni (1369–1444)Italian humanist historian (c. 1370–1444)
- Leonardo Sciascia (1921–1989)Italian writer
- Leonardo Boff (born 1938)Brazilian Catholic liberation theologian
People named Leonardo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Leonardo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Leonardo is most concentrated in Nevada (4.2×), Arizona (2.7×), Texas (2.7×), California (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Leonardo peaked:
Leonardo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Leonardo | 142,506 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Leonardo | 7,210 | 119th |
| Switzerland boys | Leonardo | 3,799 | 12th |
| France boys | Leonardo +1 spelling | 2,880 | 427th |
| Poland boys | Leonardo | 945 birth registrations | 139th |
| Belgium boys | Leonardo +1 spelling | 770 | 204th |
| Ireland boys | Leonardo | 334 | 166th |
| Norway boys | Leonardo | 308 | 240th |
| Scotland boys | Leonardo | 241 | 236th |
| Italy girls | Leonardo | 223 | — |
| Northern Ireland boys | Leonardo | 59 | 249th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Leonardo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Leonardo | 2,269 | 0.182% | 22nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Leonardo | 705 | 0.162% | 44th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Leonardo | 817 | 1.253% | 1st |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Leonardo | 8 | 0.215% | 3rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Leonardo is most concentrated in Ticino, where 1.27% of children were given it – 792 of them.
Leonardo: rank by region
In 2025, Leonardo was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Leonardo | 290 | 20 |
| Wallonia | Leonardo | 218 | 13 |
| Brussels | Leonardo | 91 | 12 |
In 2024, Leonardo was among the 10 most common names in 19 regions of Italy, and first in 12 of them. It has come first somewhere in 13 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piemonte | Leonardo | 1 | 497 |
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Leonardo | 3 | 6 |
| Lombardia | Leonardo | 1 | 1,210 |
| Provincia Autonoma di Trento | Leonardo | 1 | 57 |
| Veneto | Leonardo | 1 | 537 |
| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Leonardo | 1 | 122 |
| Liguria | Leonardo | 1 | 187 |
| Emilia-Romagna | Leonardo | 1 | 516 |
| Toscana | Leonardo | 1 | 413 |
| Umbria | Leonardo | 3 | 86 |
| Marche | Leonardo | 2 | 150 |
| Lazio | Leonardo | 1 | 770 |
| Abruzzo | Leonardo | 1 | 165 |
| Molise | Leonardo | 3 | 22 |
| Campania | Leonardo | 4 | 571 |
| Puglia | Leonardo | 8 | 270 |
| Calabria | Leonardo | 5 | 150 |
| Sicilia | Leonardo | 1 | 624 |
| Sardegna | Leonardo | 1 | 181 |
In 2025, Leonardo was given 2 times or more in 13 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Leonardo | 128 | 9 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Leonardo | 141 | 3 |
| Łódzkie | Leonardo | 158 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | Leonardo | 123 | 11 |
| Mazowieckie | Leonardo | 159 | 11 |
| Opolskie | Leonardo | 108 | 3 |
| Podkarpackie | Leonardo | 123 | 4 |
| Podlaskie | Leonardo | 113 | 3 |
| Pomorskie | Leonardo | 152 | 5 |
| Śląskie | Leonardo | 155 | 6 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Leonardo | 136 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Leonardo | 119 | 13 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Leonardo | 138 | 3 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Leonardo appears in the lists for Nord-ovest (1st), Nord-est (1st), Centro (1st), Isole (1st) and Sud (4th).
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Leonardo appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (76th), Brussels-Capital Region (91st), Province of Liège (183rd), Province of Hainaut (215th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (218th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Leonardo by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 304 | 78th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Leonardo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Leonardo | 279 | 534 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Leonardo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 14,407 men called Leonardo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Leonardo | 549 | 1.030 | 144 |
| Palmas, Las | Leonardo | 552 | 0.949 | 146 |
| Huelva | Leonardo | 232 | 0.868 | 143 |
| Sevilla | Leonardo | 757 | 0.785 | 142 |
| Balears, Illes | Leonardo | 488 | 0.784 | 160 |
| Málaga | Leonardo | 683 | 0.781 | 136 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Leonardo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.