Leonora

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Leonora is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Cape Verde it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Shortened form of pEleonora.

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

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Leonor in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, MX Mexico and 12 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●

Shortened form of pEleonora. where he appeared in Gone with the Wind (1939). A famous female bearer is the French film actress Leslie Caron (b. 1930). Short form: Les (3).

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Leonora 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●

  • Portuguese147K36%
  • English88K22%
  • Spanish77K19%
  • Italian16K4%
  • Albanian10K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese146,71736%
English88,07322%
Spanish76,82319%
Italian16,0904%
Albanian10,0682%

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◐

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

  • English given name122K records spelled Leonora15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Netherlands, Brazil

    Languages: English, Danish, German

    Also written Léonora, Leonóra

  • Italian given name16K records spelled Leonora3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Léonora, Leonóra

  • Indonesian given name5.0K records spelled Leonora3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Leónora

  • French given name3.4K records spelled Leonora4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Léonora, Lëonora

  • a separate given name3.1K records spelled Leonora4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Léonora, Leonôra, Leonóra

  • Romanian given name1.3K records spelled Leonora3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Moldova, United States, Romania

    Also written Leonoră, Leonóra

48 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●

Leonora is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Variante de Leonor; a menudo explicado como árabe, 'Dios es mi luz'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Swedish, Leonor(a/e) är förkortade former av → Eleonora. En känd nutida namnbärare är den svenska prinsessan Leonore (f. 2014). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 11 juli.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • English: aphetic form of ELEONORA . Cognate: German: Leonore .

    as a word

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

050100150190019502000138 · 1924

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Leonora in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188026
188123
188219
188318
188421
188527
188622
188724
188841
188931
189037
189126
189231
189342
189446
189541
189636
189733
189845
189936
190040
190135
190235
190336
190429
190525
190625
190734
190840
190937
191049
191167
191263
191383
191486
1915110
1916117
191795
1918133
1919113
1920118
1921124
1922120
1923120
1924138
1925136
1926132
1927137
1928120
1929117
193085
193173
193272
193374
193486
193558
193666
193784
193863
193957
194068
194173
194266
194363
194446
194545
194661
194756
194865
194964
195071
195147
195257
195346
195453
195567
195677
195762
195872
195958
196060
196160
196255
196359
196457
196535
196642
196743
196851
196951
197048
197149
197236
197343
197437
197525
197625
197740
197839
197918
198031
198123
198216
198322
198418
198526
198622
198717
198829
198926
199022
199118
199218
199318
199410
199511
199610
199716
199813
199915
200021
200116
200216
200321
200421
200531
200629
200728
200814
200931
201027
201127
201229
201327
201452
201547
201652
201746
201856
201963
202064
202174
202273
2023105
202492
2025114

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Leonora Dori, b. 1568Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, b. 1621Leonora Speyer, b. 1872Queen Sylvia of Sarawak, b. 1885Nora Swinburne, b. 1902Leonora Carrington, b. 1917Leonora Ruffo, b. 1936Leonora Balcarce, b. 1978Leonora Armellini, b. 1992Leonora, b. 1998

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 88 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Leonora
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—9.8K#2,204
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20227.8K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—7.7K#2,019
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.6K#3,629
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—4.5K#86
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.8K#744
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—2.4K#223
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.2K#990
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—2.2K#176
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.2K#1,858
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20251.1K—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024851#98

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 1,006 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

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

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