Leōnidas
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leōnidas is a male 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”).
- GRGreece≈1 in 820(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.4K
- PEPeru≈1 in 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 Leōnidas 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)
- Record sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 819 (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, 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 3 more and Λεωνιδας in GR Greece.
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”).
Cited for this meaning 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)Leōnidas 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 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Leonidas | 59 |
| GR Greece | #355 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 819 | 119 | Λεωνιδας | 144 |
| BR Brazil | — | 12,115 | 1 in 17K | 13K | Leonidas | 109 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #63 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Leonidas | 31 |
| US United States | — | 6,476 | 1 in 51K | 6K | Leonidas | 212 |
| NI Nicaragua | #163 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | 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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leōnidas 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 Leōnidas a male or female name?
- Leōnidas 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 Leōnidas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Leōnidas in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leonidas.
- How common is the name Leōnidas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,115 people named Leōnidas in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Leōnidas compared with other names?
- In Peru, Leōnidas is the 363rd most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/le%C5%8DnidasThe 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, “Leōnidas” — the 363rd most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.