Leopold
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from the male personal name Leopold, of Germanic origin, literally ‘people-brave’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫiəˌpoʊɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leopold is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. In Aruba it is the 38th most common given name.
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K
- SISlovenia1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Léopold in FR France.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the male personal name Leopold, of Germanic origin, literally ‘people-brave’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Leopold is read(measured from records)
Leopold is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English30%
from the male personal name Leopold, of Germanic origin, literally ‘people-brave’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Teutonic: brave for the people; name of kings of Belgium and Bohemia.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A male given name from the Germanic languages. Used in the 19th century but rare today.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Leopold in French.
- German21%
of the elements liut people, tribe + bold bold, brave. The form of the first element has been affected by the influence of Leonard. The surname is also borne by Ashkenazic
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
of the elements Hut people, tribe + bold bold, brave. The form of the first element has been affected by the influence of Leonard. The surname is also borne by Ashkenazic
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leopold 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #875 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Leopold | 7 |
| DE Germany | #984 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Leopold | 154 |
| AT Austria | #225 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 2.8K | Leopold | 117 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 15K | Léopold | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 3,380 | 1 in 3.2K | 3.4K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,497 | 1 in 4.1K | 2.5K | Leopold | 18 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,068 | 1 in 2K | 1.1K | — | 9 |
| AW Aruba | #38 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Leopold | 3 |
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); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given 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)
Leopold 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.
from a Germanic personal name, Luitpold, composed of the elements Hut ‘people’ -I- bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’. The form of the first element has been influenced by Leonard. The surname is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, in which case it is an adoption of the German forename as a surname.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperorb. 1640ATHoly Roman Emperor (1658-1705), King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia (1640–1705)
- Leopold Mozartb. 1719DEGerman composer (1719–1787)
- Leopold IIb. 1747ATHoly Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
- Leopold I of Belgiumb. 1790BEGerman prince who became the first King of the Belgians (1790–1865)
- Leopold von Rankeb. 1795DEGerman historian and founder of modern source-based history (1795-1886)
- Otto von Bismarckb. 1815DEnot in their usual nameGerman statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
- Leopold II of Belgiumb. 1835BEKing of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 (1835–1909)
- Antonín Dvořákb. 1841CZnot in their usual nameCzech composer (1841–1904)
- Leopold III of Belgiumb. 1901BEking of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901–1983)
- Leopold Figlb. 1902ATAustrian politician, minister, chancellor (1902–1965)
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 105 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 15K | #2,706 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3.4K | #308 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 2.8K | #39 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.5K | #922 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.7K | #345 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.1K | #176 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1K | #385 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 575 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 214 | #39 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Leopold mean, and where does it come from?
- from the male personal name Leopold, of Germanic origin, literally ‘people-brave’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Leopold a male or female name?
- Leopold 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 Leopold have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Leopold in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leopold.
- What are other forms of the name Leopold?
- In the etymology graph, Leopoldo and Luitpold are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Leopold?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3,380 people named Leopold, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Leopold compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Leopold is the 875th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Leopold?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫiəˌpoʊɫd/ (IPA) for English.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leopoldThe 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, “Leopold” — the 875th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.