Leale

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/əɫeɪl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Leale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): IoW and Guernsey. see Leal .

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 303K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
  • USUnited States1 in 2.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

150 people

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 303K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): IoW and Guernsey. see Leal .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Leale 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.

Where Leale is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina1501 in 303K150Leale37
US United States1421 in 2.3M222Leale11
ES Spain61 in 8.3M6Leale3
BE Belgium51 in 2.3M5—1
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4——

150 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Leale is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Canada

    Also written Léalé, Léale

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Léale

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Ĺẽấĺẽ, Lëälë

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Leale is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, loyal, faithful

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mqp, sail

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

18001850190019502000Charles Leale, b. 1842Ettore Leale, b. 1896Alessandro Leale, b. 1980

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)

FormalDear Ms Leale,
InformalHi Leale,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Leale
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020222#89,563
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000197#87,729
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—150—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010142#121,590
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6#154,812
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20085#103,499
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Leale?
A machine transcription gives /əɫeɪl/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Leale mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): IoW and Guernsey. see Leal . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Leale have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 150 people named Leale, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leale.
Where is Leale most common?
Leale is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 303 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Leale?
In Argentina, the national register counted 150 people named Leale, about 1 in 303 thousand residents.

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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, “Leale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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