Meaning not yet researched.
Leonardo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,789 in 2025. Its best rank was #75 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #75 in 2022; #91 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leonardo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#91 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #75.
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Leonardo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,789 boys in 2025. Peak: #75 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 4,427 (2019).
In 2025, 3,789 US boys were named Leonardo, making it the 91st most common boys’ name of the year, down 7 places from #84 in 2024. That is 177 fewer than the 3,966 boys named Leonardo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #75, reached in 2022. The most boys given the name in a single year was 4,427, in 2019. For comparison, it was #103 in 2015 and #842 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leonardo in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 96,207 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 35,261 babies named Leonardo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 41,467 US boys were named Leonardo; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 4,427. In 2025 that was about 1 in 451 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leonardo ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #31 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 9 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Leonard (295,746 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lionardo and Lenardo are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lionardo (163), Lenardo (115).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Leonardo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 64 | #31 | #43 |
| California | 838 | #32 | #46 |
| Arizona | 146 | #37 | #73 |
| Texas | 720 | #39 | #54 |
| Illinois | 203 | #44 | #64 |
| New Jersey | 114 | #80 | #108 |
| Florida | 244 | #86 | #99 |
| New York | 207 | #88 | #122 |
| Washington | 83 | #92 | #139 |
| Connecticut | 35 | #107 | #112 |
| Colorado | 63 | #113 | #120 |
| Massachusetts | 63 | #115 | #161 |
| Wisconsin | 52 | #117 | #147 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #120 | #165 |
| Delaware | 9 | #120 | #119 |
| Oregon | 32 | #130 | #112 |
| Nebraska | 20 | #133 | #159 |
| Maryland | 43 | #138 | #184 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #141 | #259 |
| Georgia | 84 | #142 | #166 |
| Virginia | 63 | #145 | #176 |
| North Carolina | 88 | #148 | #170 |
| New Mexico | 13 | #154 | #82 |
| Iowa | 27 | #159 | #245 |
| Oklahoma | 31 | #160 | #172 |
| Utah | 34 | #165 | #140 |
| Kansas | 23 | #171 | #188 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #178 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 70 | #185 | #190 |
| South Carolina | 30 | #192 | #285 |
| Michigan | 55 | #192 | #224 |
| Minnesota | 34 | #196 | #174 |
| Indiana | 42 | #200 | #177 |
| Tennessee | 41 | #219 | #299 |
| Ohio | 55 | #232 | #302 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #244 | — |
| Missouri | 29 | #249 | #288 |
| Idaho | 10 | #267 | #304 |
| Louisiana | 18 | #287 | #426 |
| Alabama | 19 | #295 | #281 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #296 | #202 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #327 | #314 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #357 | #512 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 3,789 | #91 |
| 2024 | — | — | 3,966 | #84 |
| 2023 | — | — | 4,030 | #84 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,579 | 4,367 | #75 |
| 2021 | — | — | 4,105 | #87 |
| 2020 | — | — | 4,104 | #86 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,828 | 4,427 | #86 |
| 2018 | — | — | 4,223 | #93 |
| 2017 | — | — | 4,131 | #97 |
| 2016 | — | — | 4,325 | #96 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,009 | 3,823 | #103 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,079 | 3,450 | #114 |
| 2013 | — | — | 2,909 | #131 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,906 | 2,684 | #152 |
| 2011 | — | — | 2,641 | #149 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,342 | 2,617 | #150 |
| 2009 | — | — | 2,368 | #164 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,261 | 2,346 | #168 |
| 2007 | — | — | 2,527 | #164 |
| 2006 | — | — | 2,187 | #183 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,851 | 2,146 | #186 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,367 | 1,964 | #195 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,708 | #211 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,008 | 1,460 | #230 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,590 | 1,453 | #234 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,346 | 1,331 | #253 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,798 | 1,231 | #255 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,500 | 1,160 | #257 |
| 1997 | — | — | 707 | #357 |
| 1996 | — | — | 585 | #401 |
| 1995 | — | — | 570 | #402 |
| 1994 | — | — | 621 | #378 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,744 | 643 | #368 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,313 | 601 | #381 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,402 | 612 | #374 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,242 | 555 | #415 |
| 1989 | — | — | 398 | #478 |
| 1988 | — | — | 356 | #486 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,376 | 320 | #498 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,960 | 310 | #498 |
| 1985 | — | — | 301 | #502 |
| 1984 | — | — | 295 | #489 |
| 1983 | — | — | 266 | #515 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,763 | 314 | #480 |
| 1981 | — | — | 290 | #493 |
| 1980 | — | — | 344 | #450 |
| 1979 | — | — | 277 | #501 |
| 1978 | — | — | 243 | #529 |
| 1977 | — | — | 256 | #513 |
| 1976 | — | — | 255 | #502 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,878 | 277 | #481 |
| 1974 | — | — | 268 | #488 |
| 1973 | — | — | 223 | #525 |
| 1972 | — | — | 249 | #500 |
| 1971 | — | — | 221 | #540 |
| 1970 | — | — | 198 | #573 |
| 1969 | — | — | 157 | #632 |
| 1968 | — | — | 144 | #632 |
| 1967 | — | — | 152 | #609 |
| 1966 | — | — | 162 | #590 |
| 1965 | — | — | 124 | #667 |
| 1964 | — | — | 129 | #679 |
| 1963 | — | — | 137 | #669 |
| 1962 | — | — | 141 | #652 |
| 1961 | — | — | 149 | #640 |
| 1960 | — | — | 105 | #754 |
| 1959 | — | — | 122 | #697 |
| 1958 | — | — | 106 | #726 |
| 1957 | — | — | 90 | #791 |
| 1956 | — | — | 85 | #814 |
| 1955 | — | — | 86 | #788 |
| 1954 | — | — | 96 | #737 |
| 1953 | — | — | 82 | #792 |
| 1952 | — | — | 82 | #779 |
| 1951 | — | — | 64 | #876 |
| 1950 | — | — | 66 | #842 |
| 1949 | — | — | 64 | #860 |
| 1948 | — | — | 55 | #939 |
| 1947 | — | — | 52 | #991 |
| 1946 | — | — | 67 | #809 |
| 1945 | — | — | 61 | #792 |
| 1944 | — | — | 57 | #837 |
| 1943 | — | — | 48 | #974 |
| 1942 | — | — | 41 | #1,069 |
| 1941 | — | — | 42 | #997 |
| 1940 | — | — | 39 | #1,040 |
| 1939 | — | — | 39 | #1,023 |
| 1938 | — | — | 38 | #1,055 |
| 1937 | — | — | 35 | #1,113 |
| 1936 | — | — | 36 | #1,080 |
| 1935 | — | — | 59 | #808 |
| 1934 | — | — | 50 | #892 |
| 1933 | — | — | 44 | #955 |
| 1932 | — | — | 43 | #1,018 |
| 1931 | — | — | 41 | #1,054 |
| 1930 | — | — | 42 | #1,077 |
| 1929 | — | — | 59 | #865 |
| 1928 | — | — | 50 | #971 |
| 1927 | — | — | 62 | #861 |
| 1926 | — | — | 60 | #867 |
| 1925 | — | — | 40 | #1,112 |
| 1924 | — | — | 48 | #1,028 |
| 1923 | — | — | 48 | #1,018 |
| 1922 | — | — | 45 | #1,052 |
| 1921 | — | — | 44 | #1,063 |
| 1920 | — | — | 52 | #962 |
| 1919 | — | — | 39 | #1,112 |
| 1918 | — | — | 40 | #1,087 |
| 1917 | — | — | 40 | #1,057 |
| 1916 | — | — | 26 | #1,360 |
| 1915 | — | — | 24 | #1,392 |
| 1914 | — | — | 31 | #1,009 |
| 1913 | — | — | 17 | #1,292 |
| 1912 | — | — | 14 | #1,321 |
| 1911 | — | — | 13 | #958 |
| 1910 | — | — | 12 | #965 |
| 1909 | — | — | 12 | #874 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,513 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,154 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #973 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,090 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,024 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).