Deleon
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Deleon is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- HMHeard & McDonald Islands1 in 274◐
- PRPuerto Rico1 in 1.4K
- GTGuatemala1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈102K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 416 ●
- 1 in 3.8K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
619K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #462 | 87,414 | 505K rec. | 1 in 3.8K | 91K | Deleon | 416 |
| PH Philippines | — | 13,181 | 7.9K rec. | — | — | Deleon | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 10,915 | 13K rec. | — | — | Deleon | 56 |
| CA Canada | #614 | 10,178 | 11K rec. | — | — | Deleon | 66 |
| ES Spain | — | 10,036△ | 641 rec. | 1 in 5K | 10K | Deleon | 35 |
| SV El Salvador | #338 | 8,586 | 7.2K rec. | — | — | Deleon | 26 |
| MX Mexico | — | 7,933 | 5.2K rec. | — | 2.1K | Deleon | 74 |
| AR Argentina | — | 4,654 | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 9.8K | 4.7K | Deleon | 37 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,112 | 4.3K rec. | — | 1 | Deleon | 59 |
| UY Uruguay | #241 | 3,557 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Deleon | 27 |
| GT Guatemala | #190 | 3,305 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Deleon | 28 |
| PE Peru | — | 3,056 | 4K rec. | — | — | Deleon | 10 |
Roughly 87K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 3.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English466K66%
- Spanish121K17%
- 52K7%
- French10K1%
- Portuguese7.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 466,452 | 66% |
| Spanish | 120,843 | 17% |
| 51,530 | 7% | |
| French | 10,307 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 7,054 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1920 | 8 |
| 1921 | 6 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 6 |
| 1927 | 7 |
| 1929 | 7 |
| 1932 | 8 |
| 1935 | 7 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 6 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 9 |
| 1946 | 6 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1951 | 6 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 7 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 8 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 9 |
| 1974 | 11 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 10 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 12 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 22 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 18 |
| 1983 | 14 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 17 |
| 1987 | 15 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 18 |
| 1990 | 18 |
| 1991 | 21 |
| 1992 | 21 |
| 1993 | 17 |
| 1994 | 13 |
| 1995 | 19 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 17 |
| 1998 | 15 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 24 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 20 |
| 2009 | 22 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 17 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 16 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 12 |
| 2023 | 13 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 83 years between 1917–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Walter DeLeonb. 1884USAmerican screenwriter (1884-1947)
- Jack DeLeonb. 1924USAmerican actor (1924-2006)
- Patrick DeLeonb. 1943USAmerican psychologist and public policy expert
- Leroy DeLeonb. 1948TTTrinidad and Tobago footballer (born 1948)
- Jak Deleonb. 1951TRTurkish writer (1951–2005)
- Marcus DeLeonb. 1958USAmerican screenwriter
- Ricardo Medinab. 1971PAnot in their usual namePanamanian baseball player and manager
- Alexander DeLeonb. 1989USAmerican singer
- Nick DeLeonb. 1990USAmerican soccer player
- Laya Hayesb. 2004USnot in their usual nameAmerican voice actress and actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 91K | #336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 87K | #359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 66K | #460 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.6K | #2,743 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.6K | #6,839 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,424 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 978 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 949 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 721 | #14,807 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 141 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Deleon?
- We estimate roughly 102 thousand people bear Deleon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Deleon have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 87 thousand people bear Deleon in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled deleon.
- How common is Deleon compared with other names?
- In the United States, Deleon is the 462nd most common surname of 7,257,200 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Deleon” — the 462nd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.