Leonardo

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●

Attested across 11 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◐

Leonardo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name1.2M records spelled Leonardo18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Italy, Venezuela

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Léonardo, Lëönärdö, L̶e̶o̶n̶a̶r̶d̶o̶, Leonardö, Lèöñärdö

• Croatian given name30K records spelled Leonardo15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Poland, Czechia, Philippines

  Languages: Croatian, Polish, Czech

  Also written Леонардо, Léonardo, Lêônârdô

• Indonesian given name22K records spelled Leonardo3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Peru

  Also written 'Leonardo, Léonardo

• Lao given name10K records spelled Leonardo23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Italy

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written ลีโอนาร์โด, Lêônàrdô, ลีโอนารีโด, Leönärdö, Léonardõ

• Danish given name6.4K records spelled Leonardo7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Italy

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

  Also written Lëönårdö, Lëönärdö

76 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.

Other recorded senses●

Leonardo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Germanic. See }Leonard in main dictionary.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Spanish, Híbrido: leo ‘león’ + germánico hard ‘fuerte’; ‘fuerte como un león’.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• In Italian, Germanico, 'leone ardito, forte come un leone'.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, forma ital. de Leonardus.

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In English, Portuguese/Spanish: lion-hearted.

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Fibonaccib. 1170ITnot in their usual nameItalian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
• Leonardo Brunib. 1369ITItalian humanist historian (c. 1370–1444)
• Leonardo da Vincib. 1452ITItalian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
• Leonardo Vincib. 1690ITItalian opera composer
• Leonardo Benvenutib. 1923ITItalian actor, screenwriter (1923–2000)
• Leonardo Faviob. 1938ARArgentine singer, actor and filmmaker (1938–2012)
• Leonardo Nascimento de Araújob. 1969BRBrazilian association football player
• Leonardo DiCapriob. 1974USAmerican actor and producer (born 1974)
• Leonardo Namb. 1979AUAustralian-Argentine actor
• Leonardo Bonuccib. 1987ITItalian association football player

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 · 1,436 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Leonardo?

We estimate roughly 715 thousand people bear Leonardo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Leonardo have the most bearers?

Leonardo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled leonardo.

Where is Leonardo most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leonardo is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 373 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Leonardo compared with other names?

In Argentina, Leonardo is the 105th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Leonardo a male or female name?

Leonardo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Leonardo mean?

Recorded meaning: from the Germanic personal name Leonhard, formed from the elements leo ‘lion’ -I- hard, ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’; this was an early medieval saint’s name (see Leonard).