Leopoldo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: from Germanic *lewo- 'people' + *bald- 'bold'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leopold̪o/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leopoldo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 4.2K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 4.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Germanic *lewo- 'people' + *bald- 'bold'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Leopoldo is read(measured from records)
Leopoldo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish69%
from Germanic *lewo- 'people' + *bald- 'bold'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Germánico: 'audaz en el pueblo', de luit 'pueblo' y pold/bald 'audaz'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Leopoldo in English.
- Portuguese6.7%
a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Leopold
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leopoldo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #773 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 25K | Leopoldo | 65 |
| AR Argentina | #466 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 63 | Leopoldo | 101 |
| US United States | — | 10,189 | 1 in 33K | 10K | Leopoldo | 302 |
| PE Peru | #671 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Leopoldo | 61 |
| VE Venezuela | #530 | 6,862 | 1 in 4.2K | 6.9K | Leopoldo | 65 |
| EC Ecuador | #391 | 3,106 | 1 in 5.4K | 3.1K | Leopoldo | 41 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Leopoldo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Germanic. See }Leopold in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, Nome di origine germanica: secondo elemento bald/pald/pold ‘ardito, audace’. Varianti tedesche con leut/liut ‘popolo’.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, dal germanico Leopold, 'popolo audace'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
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)
- Leopold II, Duke of Austriab. 1328not in their usual name(1328-1344)
- Leopoldo de' Medicib. 1617ITItalian cardinal, scholar, patron of the arts and Governor of Siena (1617-1675)
- Pedro V of Portugalb. 1837PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1853 to 1861
- Leopoldo Alasb. 1852ESSpanish author (1852–1901)
- Leopoldo Fregolib. 1867ITItalian actor
- Leopoldo Triesteb. 1917ITItalian actor, director (1917-2003)
- Leopoldo Galtierib. 1926ARmilitary, dictator and de facto president of Argentina from 1981 until 1982
- Leo Gullottab. 1946ITnot in their usual nameItalian actor
- Leopoldo Jacinto Luqueb. 1949ARArgentine footballer (1949–2021)
- Leopoldo Lópezb. 1971VEVenezuelan politician
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 65 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10K | #2,436 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 6.9K | #214 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 3.1K | #370 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 39 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15 | #2,436 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 9 | #2,195 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Leopoldo mean, and where does it come from?
- from Germanic *lewo- 'people' + *bald- 'bold' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Leopoldo?
- In the etymology graph, Leopold, Léopold and Luitpold are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Leopoldo?
- A machine transcription gives /leopold̪o/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Leopoldo a male or female name?
- Leopoldo 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.
- In which country does Leopoldo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Leopoldo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leopoldo.
- How common is the name Leopoldo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,189 people named Leopoldo in 2020, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Leopoldo compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Leopoldo is the 773rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leopoldoThe 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, “Leopoldo” — the 773rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.