Leòn
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Leòn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Leō, from leō, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Doublet of lew.
- ECEcuador1 in 177(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 247
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 250
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 Leòn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #231 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 566 (measured from records)
- 1 in 177 (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Leon in MX Mexico, PE Peru, PH Philippines and 3 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)- LatinLeō(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekλέωνléōn(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin Leō, from leō, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Doublet of lew.
Cited for this meaning 12
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Leòn is found
(measured from records)Leòn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #45 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 329 | 5.7K | Leon | 252 |
| PH Philippines | #17 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 660 | listed | Leon | 174 |
| CO Colombia | #69 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 433 | 3 | Leon | 189 |
| PE Peru | #36 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 296 | — | Leon | 145 |
| VE Venezuela | #45 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 249 | — | Leon | 119 |
| EC Ecuador | #7 | 95,574 | 1 in 177 | 96K | Leon | 102 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 20,674 | 1 in 247 | 21K | — | 110 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Leòn 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 Scottish Gaelic, bruise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leòn mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Leō, from leō, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Doublet of lew. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 10 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Leòn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 397 thousand people named Leòn in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leon. After it come Philippines, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Leòn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leòn is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 177 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leòn?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 95,574 people named Leòn in 2024, about 1 in 177 residents.
- How common is Leòn compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Leòn is the 45th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/le%C3%B2nThe 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, “Leòn” — the 45th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.