Leao
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: ANE, 2025
/leaw/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Leao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 8.1K
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Leao
- Portuguese:/leaw/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Leao is found
(measured from records)Leao 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #192 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 531 | Leao | 159 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Leao | 12 |
| PT Portugal | #297 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | listed | Leao | 72 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 438 | 1 in 759K | 620 | Leao | 170 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 315 | 1 in 11K | 315 | — | — |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ricardo Leaoresearcher
- Teresa LeaoPTresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Leao?
- In Portuguese /leaw/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Leao?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Leao in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leao. After it come Angola, Portugal, Central African Republic and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Leao?
- In the United States, the national register counted 438 people named Leao in 2010, about 1 in 759 thousand residents.
- How common is Leao compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Leao is the 192nd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leao?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leaoThe 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, “Leao” — ranked 5946th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.