Leonty
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎɪənti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leonty is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Mas Leonti(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 25K
- MDMoldova≈1 in 31Kas Leonti
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 Leonty 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 25K (inferred from the name graph)
277 named Leonti, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leonti in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CH Switzerland and 1 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leonty 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 | 277as Leonti | 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 | 19as Leonti | 1 in 442K | 19 | Leonti | 4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 4 | 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Levin August von Bennigsenb. 1745DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Russian general
- Ludwig von Hagemeisterb. 1780LVnot in their usual nameBaltic German explorer (1780-1833)
- Leon Benoisb. 1856RUnot in their usual nameRussian architect (1856-1928)
- Leon Bramsonb. 1869LTnot in their usual nameJewish activist and politician (1869–1941)
- Leontiusb. 1876UAnot in their usual nameMetropolitan of the North American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Leonty Ramenskyb. 1884RURussian scientist (1884-1953)
- Leonty Ugryumovb. 1887RUSoviet corps commander (1887–1937)
- Leonti Gourtievb. 1891AZSoviet military officer, Hero of the Soviet Union (1891–1943)
- Leonty Cheremisovb. 1893RUSoviet general (1893-1967)
- Leonty SoymonovRussian military officer (????-1743)
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #2,479 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1 | #11,287 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 1 | #16,092 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Leonty?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪənti/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Leonty a male or female name?
- Leonty is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Leonty?
- In the etymology graph, Leo, Leoncio and Léo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Leonty 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 is Leonty most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leonty is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leonty?
- In St. Vincent & Grenadines, the national register counted 4 people named Leonty in 2025, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Leonty?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leontyThe 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, “Leonty”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.