Léonid

given name · Latin script

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

Léonid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Leo + -n- + -id. From the constellation of Leo.

rarermore common
  • UZUzbekistan≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 262as Леонід
  • RURussia≈1 in 561as Леонид

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 Léonid itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈250,000 named Леонид, est.

#323 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
275 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 347 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LéonidLatin(measured from records)
ЛеонидCyrillic(measured from records)
ԼեոնիդArmenian(measured from records)
ლეონიდGeorgian(measured from records)
ΛεονιντGreek(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Леонид in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more, Leonid in BR Brazil, MD Moldova, Леонід in UA Ukraine and Леонидс in LV Latvia.

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)

Leo + -n- + -id. From the constellation of Leo.

Sources 2

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Léonid 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 Léonid is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#76≈250,000 est.≈1 in 561#29Леонид211
UA Ukraine#54≈170,000 est.≈1 in 262listedЛеонід97
KZ Kazakhstan#146≈14,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K3.1KЛеонид51
BR Brazil—12,115as Leonidas1 in 17K13KLeonid31
UZ Uzbekistan#740≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Леонид25
MD Moldova#1219,6931 in 3479.7KLeonid33
BY Belarus#65≈7,500 est.≈1 in 1.3K48Леонид53
LV Latvia#8932,433as Leonīds1 in 7732.4KЛеонидс29

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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)

Léonid is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Leonid, Leonìd, Lèonid

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Leonìd, Leoníd, Leonid

4 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Leonid Andreyev, b. 1871Leonid Govorov, b. 1897Leonid Leonov, b. 1899Leonid Kinskey, b. 1903Leonid Brezhnev, b. 1906Leonid Kantorovich, b. 1912Leonid Gaidai, b. 1923Leonid Kogan, b. 1924Leonid Yarmolnik, b. 1954Leonid Slutsky, b. 1971

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(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Léonid under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Léonid mean, and where does it come from?
Leo + -n- + -id. From the constellation of Leo. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
Is Léonid a male or female name?
Léonid 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 Léonid have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 253 thousand people named Леонид in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Léonid most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Léonid is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 347 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Léonid?
In Moldova, the national register counted 9,693 people named Léonid, about 1 in 347 residents.
How common is Léonid compared with other names?
In Russia, Léonid is the 76th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Léonid” — the 76th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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