Leonardo

boys’ nameAt its peakCompare

Leonardo is ranked 84th among boys in 2024 (3,951 births). Its best rank was 75th, in 2022.

Rank in 2024: #84same as 2023
Births in 2024: 3,9510.23% of boys
Peak year: 20194,425 births
Best rank: #75in 2022
Since 1885: 92,243people given the name

Babies named Leonardo, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

92,243 boys have been named Leonardo in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 4,425 births — 0.25% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2019, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 38%. It has spent 95 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Leonardo
1880s	5
1900s	38
1910s	256
1920s	508
1930s	427
1940s	526
1950s	879
1960s	1,400
1970s	2,466
1980s	3,194
1990s	7,285
2000s	19,487
2010s	35,223
2020s	20,549

In 2019, its biggest year

Leonardo was the 86th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.

Names that rose and fell with Leonardo

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.