Leandër
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leandër is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).
- NONorway1 in 2K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 6.6K
- DKDenmark1 in 9.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
3,184 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leander in US United States, FI Finland, GB United Kingdom and 1 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 GreekΛέανδροςLéandros(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootλέωνléōn“lion”(measured from records)
From Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leandër 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,184 | 1 in 104K | 3.1K | Leander | 255 |
| NO Norway | 2,777 | 1 in 2K | 10K | — | 20 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Leander | 1 |
| FI Finland | 838 | 1 in 6.6K | 2.5K | Leander | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 3 | Leander | 99 |
| DK Denmark | 599 | 1 in 9.8K | 599 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 2 | — | 51 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 9 | — | 35 |
3,184 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leandër mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 5 other sources.
- Is Leandër a male or female name?
- Leandër 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 Leandër have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Leandër, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leander.
- Where is Leandër most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leandër is densest in Norway — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leandër?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,184 people named Leandër in 2020, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leand%C3%ABrThe 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, “Leandër”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.