Leontine
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Du grec Leontinê, de leôn «lion»
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləɔ̃tin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leontine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 6K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 9.3K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Du grec Leontinê, de leôn «lion».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leontine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 24K | Leontine | 133 |
| CM Cameroon | #932 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Leontine | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,857 | 1 in 6K | 2.8K | Leontine | 12 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Leontine | 8 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 1 | Leontine | 4 |
| TG Togo | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 1 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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)
Leontine 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 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)
- Léontine Lippmannb. 1844FRFrench Salon host (1844–1910)
- Léontine Zantab. 1872FRFrench philosopher, feminist and novelist (1872–1942)
- Bleuette Bernonb. 1878FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1878–1937)
- Leontine Saganb. 1889ZAAustrian-Hungarian stage and film director
- Lola Prusacb. 1895FRnot in their usual nameFrench fashion designer (1895-1985)
- Pancho Barnesb. 1901USnot in their usual nameAmerican aviator (1901-1975)
- Marie-Thérèse Walterb. 1909FRnot in their usual namecohabitant of Pablo Picasso (1909–1977)
- Lona Cohenb. 1913USnot in their usual nameAmerican spy for the Soviet Union (1913–1992)
- Leontine Petitb. 1964film producer
- Florence Welchb. 1986GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer (born 1986)
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 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.8K | #648 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.3K | #1,841 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 47 | #6,964 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #23 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Leontine mean, and where does it come from?
- Du grec Leontinê, de leôn «lion». Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Leontine a male or female name?
- Leontine 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.
- How do you pronounce Leontine?
- A machine transcription gives /ləɔ̃tin/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Leontine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Leontine in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leontine.
- Where is Leontine most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leontine is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 6.0 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leontine?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,857 people named Leontine, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Leontine compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Leontine is the 932nd most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leontineThe 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, “Leontine” — the 932nd most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.