boys:
5.9k births since 1896
#1537 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1896
#3530 (54th percentile)
The name Leopoldo is the #3,530 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,901 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 54.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,537 (66.5% percentile) for all time with 5,901 births since 1896.
Leopoldo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (first recorded for boys in 1896). Birth data for Leopoldo is available in 120 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Leopoldo reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 12.8% percentile (ranked #594) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 61 births per million (ranked 11.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Leopoldo ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 23.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leopoldo".
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Our model has identified 19 different pronunciations for the name Leopoldo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.6% confident that Leopoldo is pronounced as lay-uh-POHL-doh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lee-uh-POHL-doh, at 14.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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