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Leandros

#11,447 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Leander

Leandros has been given to 58 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #11,447 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Leandros, 2025

1 in 553,000

Leandros over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leandros: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Leander

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leandros means

Leandros is a form of Leander.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Leandros is used in Greek Mythology.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Leandros → Leander. The family’s meaning is “lion + man”, recorded in English with the source elements λέων and ἀνήρ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leander.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 58 boys were recorded with the name Leandros between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,080 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,422 in 2020 to #11,447 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,186 in 2015 to #11,447 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leandros?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,447
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leandros sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leandros. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leandross were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leandros was born before 2019 — so the typical Leandros is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
58
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Leandros rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,367
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−25
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,261
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2024 (10)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,080
2024

Spellings of Leandros

Leandros is not the most common spelling — Leandro is, with 71.1% against Leandros's 0.37%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Leandros around the world

Where Leandros ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2023
    #6,663
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2017–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Leandros by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,447
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 25
Best rank ever
#8,080
2024
Peak year
2024
10 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
58
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Leandros

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LeangeloLeandraLealanAmbrosLeartisTewodrosLeasterLeavittLeamondLeathanLambrosLeamanXandrosLealandLeanthonyLeandraeLeandreaAndrosLeafordLeaireLearoyLeanardLeartLealon

Sibling names for Leandros

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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