Léonore
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French form of Eleonora/Leonora; origin disputed, often linked to Arabic or Occitan forms
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Léonore is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 324K
- SESweden1 in 11K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leonore in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands.
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)
French form of Eleonora/Leonora; origin disputed, often linked to Arabic or Occitan forms.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Léonore 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1 | Leonore | 86 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,449 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Leonore | 32 |
| US United States | 1,027 | 1 in 324K | 1K | Leonore | 207 |
| FR France | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 2.1K | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 912 | 1 in 11K | 912 | — | 3 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 207 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 94 | 1 in 59K | 128 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Léonore is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Diminutif d’Éléonore; origine grecque, « compassion ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Léonore d'Étampes de Valençayb. 1589FRFrench archbishop
- Léonore Gourfein Weltb. 1859UAophthalmologist (1859-1944)
- Léonore Confinob. 1981FRFrench playwright
- Léonore Perrusb. 1984FRFrench fencer (born 1984)
- Léonore Robieuxb. 1987FRresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-7715-7204
- Léonore Porchetb. 1989CHSwiss politician
- Léonore Baulacb. 1990FRFrench ballet dancer
- Léonore Moncond'huyb. 1990FRFrench politician
- Léonore Le CaisneFRFrench researcher
- Léonore Gonzalez de LinaresFRFrench historian
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.1K | #300 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 43 | #9,258 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #1 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 does the name Léonore mean, and where does it come from?
- French form of Eleonora/Leonora; origin disputed, often linked to Arabic or Occitan forms. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Léonore a male or female name?
- Léonore 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.
- In which country does Léonore have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Léonore in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leonore.
- Where is Léonore most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Léonore is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Léonore?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,449 people named Léonore, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Léonore?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A9onoreThe 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, “Léonore”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.