girls:
141 births since 1975
#5575 (2nd percentile)
boys:
88.3k births since 1885
#333 (93rd percentile)
overall:
88.4k births since 1885
#739 (90th percentile)
The name Leonardo is the #739 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 88,404 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 90.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #333 (92.8% percentile) for all time with 88,263 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,575 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 141 births since 1975.
Leonardo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Leonardo is available in 120 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (120 years for boys and 22 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Leonardo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Leonardo reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 92.1% percentile (ranked #74) with 2,329 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 2,329 births per million (ranked 92.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1985, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Leonardo ranks #82 for boys (91.1% percentile) with 2,191 births per million, which is 94.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Leonardo reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #852) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leonardo".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Leonardo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.3% confident that Leonardo is pronounced as lee-uh-NAHR-doh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lee-oh-NAHR-doh, at 24.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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