Leonora
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Shortened form of pEleonora
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎiɒnəɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leonora is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 85th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 647as Leonor
- ECEcuador1 in 1.7Kas Leonor
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 Leonora 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈80,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Leonor in AR Argentina, PE Peru, EC Ecuador and 4 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)
Shortened form of pEleonora. where he appeared in Gone with the Wind (1939). A famous female bearer is the French film actress Leslie Caron (b. 1930). Short form: Les (3).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leonora 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #604 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Leonora | 78 |
| AR Argentina | #233 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 97 | Leonor | 92 |
| CO Colombia | #267 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 7 | Leonor | 104 |
| ES Spain | #335 | 20,105as Leonor | 1 in 2.5K | 21K | Leonor | 158 |
| PE Peru | #236 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Leonor | 63 |
| PT Portugal | #85 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 647 | 913 | Leonor | 131 |
| EC Ecuador | #90 | 10,210as Leonor | 1 in 1.7K | 10K | Leonor | 51 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,414 | 1 in 2.4K | 2.4K | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,181 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.2K | Leonor | 4 |
| XK Kosovo | #468 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 4.5K | Leonora | 4 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Leonora is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Variante de Leonor; a menudo explicado como árabe, 'Dios es mi luz'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Swedish, Leonor(a/e) är förkortade former av → Eleonora. En känd nutida namnbärare är den svenska prinsessan Leonore (f. 2014). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 11 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
English: aphetic form of ELEONORA . Cognate: German: Leonore .
as a word
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Leonora Dorib. 1568FRItalian noble
- Leonora Christina Ulfeldtb. 1621DKDanish countess
- Leonora Speyerb. 1872USAmerican poet (1872–1956)
- Queen Sylvia of Sarawakb. 1885MYnot in their usual nameQueen Consort of Sarawak (1917 - 1946)
- Nora Swinburneb. 1902GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (1902-2000)
- Leonora Carringtonb. 1917GBBritish-born Mexican artist, painter and novelist (1917–2011)
- Leonora Ruffob. 1936ITItalian actress
- Leonora Balcarceb. 1978ARArgentinian actor
- Leonora Armellinib. 1992ITItalian pianist
- Leonorab. 1998DKDanish singer and figure skater
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 91 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 4.5K | #86 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 2.4K | #223 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2.2K | #176 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 247 | #7,685 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 214 | #3,873 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2024 | 199 | #25 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2023 | 6 | #2,836 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2024 | 4 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2023 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2 | #86 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Leonora?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎiɒnəɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Where does the name Leonora come from?
- Shortened form of pEleonora. where he appeared in Gone with the Wind (1939). A famous female bearer is the French film actress Leslie Caron (b. 1930). Short form: Les (3). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Leonora?
- In the etymology graph, Ellen, Nora and Eleanor are forms of the same name in other languages; Lorita is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Eleonora.
- Is Leonora a male or female name?
- Leonora is a female 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 does the name Leonora mean?
- Recorded meaning: Shortened form of pEleonora.
- In which country does Leonora have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 80 thousand people named Leonora in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leonora.
- How common is the name Leonora?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 2,414 people named Leonora, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Leonora compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Leonora is the 604th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leonoraThe 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, “Leonora” — the 604th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.