Leonir
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Leonir is a given name, most frequently recorded in Brazil. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 17K◐
- PYParaguay1 in 339K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
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●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 177,883 | 100% |
| AR Argentina | 244 | 1% |
| PY Paraguay | 93 | 1% |
| US United States | 43 | 1% |
| PH Philippines | 30 | 1% |
≈178,293 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese167K94%
- English11K6%
- Spanish4111%
- ptbr441%
- German321%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 166,989 | 94% |
| English | 10,984 | 6% |
| Spanish | 411 | 1% |
| ptbr | 44 | 1% |
| German | 32 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 10 |
| 1940 | 175 |
| 1950 | 819 |
| 1960 | 2,709 |
| 1970 | 6,122 |
| 1980 | 8,736 |
| 1990 | 10,213 |
| 2000 | 10,748 |
| 2010 | 10,890 |
| 2022 | 10,929 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 10 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 12K | #1,939 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 8.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 7.8K | #892 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.1K | #1,607 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 6.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 4K | #1,735 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.9K | #1,607 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 3.4K | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 55 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Leonir?
- Our records include 178,293 bearers of Leonir across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Leonir have the most bearers?
- Leonir is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- Is Leonir a male or female name?
- Leonir is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
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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, “Leonir”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.