Leonildo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Guerriero valoroso come un leone
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/ljunildu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Leonildo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 17K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 200K
- PEPeru≈1 in 600Kfew records
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 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
12,321 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Guerriero valoroso come un leone
Cited for this meaning 1
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leonildo 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 | — | 12,321 | 1 in 17K | 15K | Leonildo | 88 |
| MZ Mozambique | #305 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Leonildo | 12 |
| AO Angola | #811 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Leonildo | 18 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 201K | 2 | Leonildo | 21 |
| US United States | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | — | Leonildo | 39 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Leonildo | 7 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 180K | listed | Leonildo | 14 |
12,321 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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)- Leonildo Tarozzib. 1895ITItalian politician (1895–1980)
- Leonildo Marchesellib. 1912ITItalian musician (1912-2005)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 15K | #1,662 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 15K | #558 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 12K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 12K | #1,477 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 12K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 12K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 7.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 5.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 2.4K | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Leonildo mean, and where does it come from?
- Guerriero valoroso come un leone Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
- How do you pronounce Leonildo?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ljunildu/; in Spanish /leoˈnildo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Leonildo a male or female name?
- Leonildo is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE).
- In which country does Leonildo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Leonildo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leonildo.
- How common is the name Leonildo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,321 people named Leonildo in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Leonildo compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Leonildo is the 305th most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leonildo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leonildoThe 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, “Leonildo” — the 305th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.