Leroy
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leroy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 11th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ‘servant of the king’, or perhaps from a medieval French nickname for someone with regal airs, from Old French le roy ‘the king’.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 2K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #972 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 493 (measured from records)
- 1 in 861 (inferred from the name graph)
≈690,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘servant of the king’, or perhaps from a medieval French nickname for someone with regal airs, from Old French le roy ‘the king’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leroy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈690,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Leroy | 14 |
| US United States | #361 | 67,707 | 1 in 4.9K | 68K | Leroy | 493 |
| GB United Kingdom | #485 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 3 | Leroy | 168 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Leroy | 8 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Leroy | 42 |
| SG Singapore | #255 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Leroy | 45 |
| JM Jamaica | #11 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Leroy | 19 |
| GY Guyana | — | 871 | 1 in 861 | 871 | — | 7 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Leroy 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 English, A male given name transferred from the surname.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Voir Roy.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In English, French: the king; see Elroy.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, ) Leroi [la'roi], ['li:roi]: in den i98oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., der aus einem Familiennamen (zu altfranzös. le roy »der König«) hervorgegangen ist. Dem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
English: now considered a typical Black American given name, but formerly also extensively borne by White Americans. It is from a French nickname meaning ‘the king’, but it is not entirely clear why this particular form should have become such a popular given name in English. See also DELROY .
as a word
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)
- Paul Robesonb. 1898USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)
- Leroy Andersonb. 1908USAmerican composer (1908-1975)
- Robert Johnsonb. 1911USnot in their usual nameAmerican blues singer and guitarist
- Gordon Cooperb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronaut (1927–2004)
- Butch Otterb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (born 1942)
- Newt Gingrichb. 1943USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician and former speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Samuel L. Jacksonb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1948)
- Daniel Baldwinb. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1960)
- Leroy Ferb. 1990NLDutch association football player (born 1990)
- Leroy Sanéb. 1996DEGerman association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 87 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 68K | #750 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 871 | #74 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 269 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 103 | #750 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2023 | 3 | #728 |
Reference works 8
- 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
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Leroy mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘servant of the king’, or perhaps from a medieval French nickname for someone with regal airs, from Old French le roy ‘the king’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Leroy a male or female name?
- Leroy 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 Leroy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 687 thousand people named Leroy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leroy.
- Where is Leroy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leroy is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 861 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leroy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 67,707 people named Leroy in 2020, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Leroy compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Leroy is the 11th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Leroy?
- In the etymology graph, Elroy is a form of the same name in other languages.
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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, “Leroy” — the 11th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.