Leandro
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Leander
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ljɐ̃dɾu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leandro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 413(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 449
- UYUruguay≈1 in 758
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #757 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 314 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 413 (inferred from the name graph)
471,532 people, 2022
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Leander
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leandro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #55 | 471,532 | 1 in 449 | 509K | Leandro | 256 |
| AR Argentina | #145 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 413 | 579 | Leandro | 201 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Leandro | 73 |
| US United States | — | 11,447 | 1 in 29K | 11K | Leandro | 314 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 10,487 | 1 in 1.6K | 10K | — | 41 |
| PT Portugal | #132 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Leandro | 127 |
| PY Paraguay | #234 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Leandro | 29 |
| UY Uruguay | #79 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 758 | — | Leandro | 82 |
471,532 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; the pt-irn-lista-nomes 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Leandro is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Griego Leandros, 'hombre león' (león + hombre).
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Italian, Dal greco, interpretato come 'uomo calmo, tranquillo'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Tejuco; Diamantina
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, È interpretato: a uomo calmo P . o tranquillo n . S. Leandro, vcscovo di Siviglia, VI sec.; 27 febbraio. Cogn. Aleandri ( 9).
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma ital. de Leandrus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Leandro Cufréb. 1978ARArgentine association football player and manager
- Leandro Barbosab. 1982BRBrazilian basketball player (born 1982)
- Leandro Guilheirob. 1983BRBrazilian judoka
- Victorb. 1983BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player, born 1983
- Leandro Grecob. 1986ITItalian association football player
- Leandro Castánb. 1986BRBrazilian footballer
- Leandro Bacunab. 1991NLDutch-Curaçaoan footballer (born 1991)
- Leandro Paredesb. 1994ARArgentine footballer
- Leandro Trossardb. 1994BEBelgian association football player (born 1994)
- Leandro Bolmarob. 2000ARArgentine basketball player (born 2000)
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 95 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 509K | #73 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 472K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 469K | #50 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,265 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 10K | #192 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.1K | #50 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 785 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 579 | #247 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 188 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 139 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 138 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Leandro mean, and where does it come from?
- Leander Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Leandro?
- A machine transcription gives /ljɐ̃dɾu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Leandro a male or female name?
- Leandro 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.
- What are other forms of the name Leandro?
- In the etymology graph, Léandre and Leandros are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Leandro have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 472 thousand people named Leandro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leandro.
- How common is the name Leandro?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 471,532 people named Leandro in 2022, about 1 in 449 residents.
- How common is Leandro compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Leandro is the 55th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leandro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leandroThe 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, “Leandro” — the 55th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.