Leônidas

given name · Latin script

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

Leônidas 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. Recorded meaning: Ancient Greek Λεωνίδᾱς (Leōnídās, “son of Leon / lion”).

rarermore common
  • 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 Leônidas 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)

≈16,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
212 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LeônidasLatin(measured from records)
ΛεωνιδαςGreek(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)

Ancient Greek Λεωνίδᾱς (Leōnídās, “son of Leon / lion”).

Sources 3

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Leônidas 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 Leônidas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#363≈16,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Leonidas59
BR Brazil—12,1151 in 17K13KLeonidas109
US United States—6,4761 in 51K6KLeonidas212
DO Dominican Republic#63≈6,400 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Leonidas31
EC Ecuador#2425,5951 in 3K5.6KLeonidas38
HN Honduras#176≈3,200 est.≈1 in 2.9K—Leonidas18
NI Nicaragua#163≈2,800 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Leonidas17
CY Cyprus#594893as Λεωνιδας1 in 1.4K893Leonidas52

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Léonidas, Leǒnidas, Leonidas, Leōnidas, Leōnídas

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, Belgium

    Also written Leonidas, Léonidas, Léonîdas, Lėonidas, Lèonidas

  • Hindi given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, India, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Leonidas, Leónidas, Lêonidas, Léonidas

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Peru, United States, Ecuador

    Also written Leonidas

9 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)

1880190019201940Leônidas Coelho de Sousa, b. 1889Leônidas Cardoso, b. 1889Leônidas Antero de Matos, b. 1894Leônidas de Castro Melo, b. 1897Leônidas da Silva, b. 1913Leônidas da Silva, b. 1914Leônidas de Mello Deane, b. 1914Leônidas Pires Gonçalves, b. 1921Leônidas da Selva, b. 1927Leônidas Rachid Jaudy, b. 1932

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 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Leônidas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—13K#1,851

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 does the name Leônidas mean, and where does it come from?
Ancient Greek Λεωνίδᾱς (Leōnídās, “son of Leon / lion”). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Leônidas a male or female name?
Leônidas 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 Leônidas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Leônidas in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leonidas.
How common is the name Leônidas?
In Brazil, the national register counted 12,115 people named Leônidas in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Leônidas compared with other names?
In Peru, Leônidas is the 363rd most common given name of 254,284 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, “Leônidas” — the 363rd most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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