Leónidas
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Leonids
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leoniðas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leónidas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 63rd most common given name.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.9K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.2K
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 Leónidas 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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leonidas in PE Peru, BR Brazil, US United States and 5 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)
Leonids
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leónidas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #363 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Leonidas | 59 |
| BR Brazil | — | 12,115 | 1 in 17K | 13K | Leonidas | 109 |
| US United States | — | 6,476 | 1 in 51K | 6K | Leonidas | 212 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #63 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Leonidas | 31 |
| EC Ecuador | #242 | 5,595 | 1 in 3K | 5.6K | Leonidas | 38 |
| HN Honduras | #176 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Leonidas | 18 |
| NI Nicaragua | #163 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Leonidas | 17 |
| CY Cyprus | #594 | 893as Λεωνιδας | 1 in 1.4K | 893 | Leonidas | 52 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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)
Leónidas 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 Spanish, Griego, de leōn ‘león’ + -idēs: ‘de la estirpe de los leones’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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)
- Leonidas of Rhodesb. 200GRancient victor in four Olympiads
- Leonidas IIb. 315King of Sparta
- Leonidas of Tarentumb. 320ITancient Greek poet
- Leonidas Paraskevopoulosb. 1860GRGreek politician and general
- Leonidas Pyrgosb. 1874GRGreek fencer
- Rafael Leónidas Trujillob. 1891DOPresident of the Dominican Republic (1891-1961)
- Leonidas John Guibasb. 1949GRAmerican computer scientist
- Leonidas Kavakosb. 1967GRGreek violinist and conductor
- Leonidas Sabanisb. 1971GRweightlifter
- Leonidas IGRKing of Sparta from c. 489 BC to 480 BC
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)
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
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 Leónidas mean, and where does it come from?
- Leonids Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Leónidas?
- A machine transcription gives /leoniðas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Leónidas a male or female name?
- Leónidas 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 Leónidas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Leónidas in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leonidas.
- How common is the name Leónidas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,115 people named Leónidas in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Leónidas compared with other names?
- In Peru, Leónidas is the 363rd most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leónidas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/le%C3%B3nidasThe 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, “Leónidas” — the 363rd most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.