Ledo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ledo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname from ledo ‘happy’, ‘joyful’ (Latin laetus).
- ARArgentina1 in 40K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 475K
- ESSpain1 in 13Kas Lledo
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ledo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
3,878 named Lledo
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cape Verde, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from ledo ‘happy’, ‘joyful’ (Latin laetus).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ledo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 3,878as Lledo | 1 in 13K | 3.9K | Ledo | 107 |
| AR Argentina | 1,131 | 1 in 40K | 1.1K | Ledo | 59 |
| US United States | 701 | 1 in 475K | 701 | Ledo | 107 |
| PT Portugal | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | Ledo | 46 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Ledo | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | 130 | 1 in 26K | 130 | Ledo | 14 |
| CV Cape Verde | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ledo | 3 |
3,878 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling lledo. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Ledo 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 Portuguese, happy, joyful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
variant spelling of Lledo, a habitational name from Lledo d’Emporda in Girona province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
[Ignoto]
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of ledere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, plural past indicative of lida
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Xosé María Chao Ledob. 1844ESSpanish priest, poet from Galicia (1844-1894)
- Avelino Gómez Ledob. 1893ESSpanish writer
- Virgilio Ledo Santoandréb. 1896ESSpanish journalist
- José Jesús Ramos Ledob. 1944ESSpanish politician
- Margarita Ledo Andiónb. 1951ESSpanish writer
- Maximino Caballero Ledob. 1959ESSpanish economist
- José Manuel Ledo Santisob. 1968ESSpanish writer
- Javier Dominguez-Ledob. 1974ESSpanish ultramarathon runner
- Miguel Ledo Elvirab. 1990ESSpanish footballer (1990–2024)
- Ricky Ledob. 1992USAmerican basketball player (born 1992)
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.8K | #1,792 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.8K | #1,791 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 701 | #32,750 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 693 | #35,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 562 | #37,319 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 130 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname 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 Ledo mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from ledo ‘happy’, ‘joyful’ (Latin laetus). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Ledo have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Lledo, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ledo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,131 people named Ledo, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ledoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ledo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.