Leao

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Leo in US United States, FR France, BR Brazil and 13 more, Leon in MX Mexico, PE Peru, ES Spain and 7 more, Levon in PL Poland and Leone in IT Italy.

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.

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Leao is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname4.4K records spelled Leao9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain

  Also written Leão, Leâo, Leáo, Leaõ, Leào

• French surname1.7K records spelled Leao9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Leão, Léao, Leào, Leâo, Leăo

• a separate surname322 records spelled Leao9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Leão, Leãõ, Leāo, Leäo, Leâo

• Russian surname281 records spelled Leao7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Леао, Leão

• Danish surname268 records spelled Leao6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Leão

• Hungarian surname128 records spelled Leao3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Leão, Leăo

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 8 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ricardo Leaoresearcher
• Teresa LeaoPTresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 87 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Leao?

We estimate roughly 326 thousand people bear Leao (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Leao have the most bearers?

Leao is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled leon.

Where is Leao most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leao is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 177 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.

How common is Leao compared with other names?

In Mexico, Leao is the 45th most common surname of 198,716 surnames recorded there.