Léonel

given name · Latin script

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

/leɔnɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Léonel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 13th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 1.5K
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (inferred from the name graph)

≈30,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
349 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Guatemala, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LéonelLatin(measured from records)
ΛεονελGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Leonel in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil and 6 more.

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)

recorded in Swedish

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

Sources 3

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Léonel 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.

Where Léonel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#192≈30,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K1.7KLeonel142
US United States—28,8901 in 12K29KLeonel349
CO Colombia#313≈21,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K18Leonel120
BR Brazil#70417,9171 in 12K19KLeonel148
VE Venezuela#232≈17,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Leonel65
GT Guatemala#13≈17,000 est.≈1 in 1K—Leonel72
EC Ecuador—12,0621 in 1.4K12KLeonel52
HN Honduras#27≈5,900 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Leonel54
SV El Salvador#178≈4,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Leonel52

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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English given name29 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Leonel, Leónel, Lèonel, Leonél, Lëonel

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Leonel

  • French (Burkina Faso) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Burkina Faso

    Also written Leonel

  • Croatian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Croatia, Peru

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Leonel, Леонел

1 further group 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Léonel,Hi Léonel, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Léonel?
In the etymology graph, Lionel is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Léonel?
A machine transcription gives /leɔnɛl/ (IPA) for French.
Is Léonel a male or female name?
Léonel 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.
In which country does Léonel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Léonel in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leonel.
How common is the name Léonel?
In the United States, the national register counted 28,890 people named Léonel in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Léonel compared with other names?
In Argentina, Léonel is the 192nd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Léonel” — the 192nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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