Ĺeo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ĺeo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin leō (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, “lion”). Ĺeo is also written Λεων in Greek, Լևոն in Armenian and 레오 in Korean (Hangul).
- ITItaly≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 10K
- PLPoland1 in 375K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ĺeo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #231 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 566 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 named Leon, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ĺeo in other scripts: Latin, Greek, Armenian and 4 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Leon in MX Mexico, PE Peru, PH Philippines and 3 more, Levon in PL Poland and Leo in IT Italy.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Latinleō“lion”(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekλέωνléōn“lion”(measured from records)
Ultimately from Latin leō (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, “lion”).
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ĺeo is found
(measured from records)Ĺeo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #45 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 329 | 5.7K | Leon | 252 |
| PH Philippines | #17 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 660 | listed | Leon | 174 |
| CO Colombia | #69 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 433 | 3 | Leon | 189 |
| PE Peru | #36 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 296 | — | Leon | 145 |
| VE Venezuela | #45 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 249 | — | Leon | 119 |
| EC Ecuador | #7 | 95,574as Leon | 1 in 177 | 96K | Leon | 102 |
| IT Italy | #792 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 285 | Leo | 110 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 20,674as Leon | 1 in 247 | 21K | — | 110 |
| PL Poland | — | 102 | 1 in 375K | 69K | Levon | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ĺeo mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Latin leō (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, “lion”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 7 other sources.
- Is Ĺeo a male or female name?
- Ĺeo 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ĺeo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 397 thousand people named Leon in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Philippines, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ĺeo?
- In Poland, the national register counted 102 people named Ĺeo in 2026, about 1 in 375 thousand residents.
- How common is Ĺeo compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Ĺeo is the 45th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%BAeoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ĺeo” — ranked 61st in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.