Leonor

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Leonor is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Cape Verde it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Eleanor.

rarermore common
  • CVCape Verde1 in 104◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 332
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.3K

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

≈74K ●

across 14 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
260 ●

961K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.4K ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

LeonorLatin · Spanish●1.2M records
ЛеонораCyrillic · Russian●12K records
לאונורהHebrew · Hebrew●1.6K records
ΛεονόραGreek · Greek●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Leonora in PH Philippines, XK Kosovo, PY Paraguay and 3 more, Леонора in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, MK North Macedonia and לאונורה in IL Israel.

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●

a female given name, equivalent to English Eleanor

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Leonor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#257537,602365K rec.—97Leonor88
MX Mexico#250192,380161K rec.—629Leonor160
PE Peru#255126,834106K rec.——Leonor58
PH Philippines#26677,35477K rec.——Leonora74
CL Chile#21867,9192.9K rec.—677Leonor81
VE Venezuela#38166,95741K rec.——Leonor52
CO Colombia#24828,54113K rec.—7Leonor104
PT Portugal#6325,2544.9K rec.—913Leonor124
ES Spain#31620,10522K rec.1 in 2.5K21KLeonor147
BR Brazil#79116,24614K rec.1 in 13K22KLeonor115
US United States—14,19167K rec.1 in 23K14KLeonor260
RU Russia—11,4732.8K rec.—#814Леонора107

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish1.2M66%
  • Portuguese381K20%
  • English125K7%
  • Catalan20K1%
  • French12K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,222,01166%
Portuguese380,96720%
English125,3577%
Catalan20,1091%
French12,1961%

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◐

Leonor is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name155K records spelled Leonor15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Léonor, Leónor, Leonôr

  • a separate given name12K records spelled Leonor4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bolivia, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Leon-Or, Leónor, Léonor

  • Finnish given name733 records spelled Leonor3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Spain, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Lëônör

  • Hungarian given name636 records spelled Leonor2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Leonór

60 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●

Leonor is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Fuerte, pero compasiva y misericordiosa

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Spanish, Probable aféresis de Eleonor.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Filipino, a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Eleanor

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

025507510019001950200093 · 2024

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Leonor in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1885–2025
Yearrecords
18856
18886
18926
18936
18945
18966
18975
189816
18999
19007
19018
190210
190316
190410
19057
190619
190713
190815
190931
191022
191126
191236
191333
191437
191545
191657
191747
191854
191965
192068
192188
192281
192378
192471
192575
192685
192774
192889
192990
193073
193161
193246
193343
193452
193557
193647
193764
193848
193959
194042
194139
194253
194344
194449
194540
194656
194760
194863
194961
195066
195145
195254
195368
195445
195539
195658
195752
195852
195970
196059
196157
196262
196351
196461
196564
196661
196753
196871
196960
197053
197169
197269
197356
197452
197556
197662
197761
197841
197960
198048
198159
198262
198339
198437
198545
198641
198736
198841
198939
199054
199147
199253
199340
199437
199551
199631
199740
199844
199943
200038
200130
200228
200333
200419
200530
200643
200742
200832
200929
201032
201131
201223
201328
201432
201540
201644
201745
201847
201941
202057
202143
202259
202360
202493
202581

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 135 years between 1885–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

120014001600180020002200Leonor de Castilla, b. 1241Leonor Teles de Menezes, b. 1350Eleanor of Alburquerque, b. 1374Leonor I of Navarre, b. 1426Eleanor of Toledo, b. 1522Leonor Michaelis, b. 1875Leonor Varela, b. 1972Leonor Watling, b. 1975Leonor Andrade, b. 1994Leonor, Princess of Asturias, b. 2005

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 80 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Leonor
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—22K#1,317
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—21K#181
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—20K#344
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202216K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—15K#1,223
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202014K#1,946
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202410K#209
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.6K#871
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#1,223
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020961#26,703
PT PortugalIRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023)2024913#5
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010868#27,707

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 · 947 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Leonor?
We estimate roughly 74 thousand people bear Leonor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Leonor have the most bearers?
Leonor is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled leonor.
How common is Leonor compared with other names?
In Argentina, Leonor is the 257th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Leonor a male or female name?
Leonor is a female 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 Leonor mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Eleanor
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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, “Leonor” — the 257th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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