Leonard
Leonard is the 352nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 86,736 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,446.
By the numbers
- People
- 86,736
- Rank
- 352nd
- How common
- 1 in 3,446
- Per 100,000
- 29.0
Where the name comes from
Origin a given name
From Old French Leonard, name of a 6th century Frankish saint, from Old High German leo (“lion”) or Old High German liut (“person”) and hart (“hard”). As a surname, also used as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Leannáin (Lennon).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Leonard described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Leonard
- Robert Sean Leonard (born 1969)American actor
- Elmore Leonard (1925–2013)American novelist and screenwriter
- Sugar Ray Leonard (born 1956)American boxer
- Robert Z. Leonard (1889–1968)American film director
- Patrick Leonard (born 1956)American musician, producer
- Joshua Leonard (born 1975)American actor
- Marion Leonard (1881–1956)American actress
- Edgar Leonard (1881–1948)US tennis player
People named Leonard with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Leonard
Also a first name
Leonard has been given to 295,746 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.