Leonti
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Greek personal name or nicknameLeon, Leontos ‘lion’ (equivalent of Latin Leo, Leonis)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leonti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- MDMoldova≈1 in 31K
- ITItaly≈1 in 289K
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 Leonti 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
277 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Moldova, 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)
from the Greek personal name or nicknameLeon, Leontos ‘lion’ (equivalent of Latin Leo, Leonis).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leonti 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 277 | 1 in 1.2M | 297 | Leonti | 137 |
| IT Italy | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 289K | 1 | Leonti | 7 |
| MD Moldova | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 107 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 939K | listed | Leonti | 39 |
| FR France | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | Leonti | 4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 4as Leonty | 1 in 25K | 4 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | 8 | — | 1 |
277 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; e-services.md — living population register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Leonti 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.
From Greek Leonteios ‘lion-like’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Russian form of the Byzantine Greek name Leont(e)ios , Greek equivalent of Latin Leontius (see LEONZIO ). This was borne by several minor figures venerated in the Eastern Church, including Leontios of Neopolis (d. c. 630).
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)
- Nikki Leontib. 1981USAmerican musician
- Marco LeontiITresearcher
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 297 | #62,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 277 | #70,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 263 | #78,395 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Leonti mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Greek personal name or nicknameLeon, Leontos ‘lion’ (equivalent of Latin Leo, Leonis). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Leonti?
- In the etymology graph, Leon, Lew and Leonzio are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Leonti have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 277 people named Leonti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leonti.
- How common is the name Leonti?
- In the United States, the national register counted 277 people named Leonti in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million 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/leontiThe 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, “Leonti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.