Leonel

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Leonel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Honduras it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Diminutivo de León: ‘leoncito’.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 673◐
  • HNHonduras1 in 732
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈65K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
316 ●

941K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.4K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

LeonelLatin · Spanish●1.6M records
ΛεονελGreek · Greek●0 records

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●

Diminutivo de León: ‘leoncito’.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Leonel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1671,014,642482K rec.—1.7KLeonel135
MX Mexico#278154,032116K rec.—541Leonel191
VE Venezuela#29587,49445K rec.——Leonel65
PE Peru#53055,36933K rec.——Leonel71
CL Chile#26652,4983.9K rec.—64Leonel94
US United States—28,80486K rec.1 in 12K29KLeonel316
GT Guatemala#3527,72228K rec.——Leonel70
SV El Salvador#14026,17119K rec.——Leonel49
HN Honduras#3125,00325K rec.——Leonel51
BR Brazil—17,91724K rec.1 in 12K19KLeonel148
EC Ecuador#45912,062△516 rec.1 in 1.4K12KLeonel51
PT Portugal#2163,9071.5K rec.—listedLeonel105

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Languages●

  • Spanish1.6M70%
  • Portuguese334K15%
  • English153K7%
  • 13K1%
  • French11K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,553,63470%
Portuguese333,53215%
English153,0087%
13,4721%
French11,2861%

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◐

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

  • English given name170K records spelled Leonel29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Léonel, Leónel, Lèonel, Leonél, Léónél

  • a separate given name15K records spelled Leonel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Léonel

  • French given name14K records spelled Leonel16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Cameroon

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Lèonel, Lëönël, Leónel, Léonèl, Léónél

  • Finnish given name5.2K records spelled Leonel6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written L̶e̶o̶n̶e̶l̶, Leónel, Léonel

  • Russian given name717 records spelled Leonel14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Kazakhstan, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh

    Also written Леонель, Леонел, Leonel', Léonel

56 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●

Leonel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Leonel är en form (vanlig i spanskan) av → Lionel. Namnet har blivit populärt de allra senaste åren.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

05001K1.5K1920194019601980200020201.1K · 2024

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Leonel in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1910–2025
Yearrecords
19105
19116
191311
191416
191523
191619
191710
191821
191920
192028
192126
192236
192313
192431
192523
192626
192732
192820
192931
193037
193132
193225
193323
193437
193531
193631
193736
193826
193946
194027
194136
194242
194332
194434
194534
194636
194755
194835
194959
195050
195137
195246
195339
195444
195551
195644
195754
195861
195950
196064
196150
196248
196358
196475
196570
196663
196769
196865
196971
197090
197195
197287
1973104
1974102
1975122
1976117
197798
1978129
1979139
1980155
1981171
1982177
1983148
1984168
1985183
1986206
1987203
1988221
1989254
1990266
1991307
1992320
1993325
1994320
1995301
1996325
1997303
1998351
1999373
2000423
2001410
2002407
2003447
2004535
2005633
2006578
2007556
2008572
2009578
2010594
2011581
2012618
2013606
2014709
2015821
2016891
2017903
2018923
2019972
2020929
2021868
20221,032
20231,075
20241,084
2025942

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 115 years between 1910–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Leonel Brizola, b. 1922Leonel Mário d'Alva, b. 1935Leonel Sánchez, b. 1936Leonel Fernández, b. 1953Leonel Manzano, b. 1984Leonel Suárez, b. 1987Leonel Vangioni, b. 1987Sergio Agüero, b. 1988Leonel Moreira, b. 1990Jeremy Sarmiento, b. 2002

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 86 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Leonel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202029K#1,281
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—19K#1,437
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202218K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—18K#1,142
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202412K#172
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2.5K#299
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20241.7K#86
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.2K#2,599
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1K#1,687
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2021965#2,786
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—949#1,311
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025942—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 1,092 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Leonel?
We estimate roughly 65 thousand people bear Leonel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Leonel have the most bearers?
Leonel is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled leonel.
How common is Leonel compared with other names?
In Argentina, Leonel is the 167th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Leonel a male or female name?
Leonel 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 Leonel mean?
Recorded meaning: Diminutivo de León: ‘leoncito’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Leonel” — the 167th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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