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Leonid

#5,744 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Leonidas

Leonid has been given to 494 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #5,744 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Leonid, 2025

1 in 207,000

Leonid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leonid: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Leonidas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leonid means

Leonid is a form of Leonidas.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Leonid → Leonidas. The family’s meaning is “son of Leon / lion”, recorded in English with the source elements Leōnídās.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Macedonian and Russian Леони́д (Leoníd) or Ukrainian Леоні́д (Leoníd), from Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας (Leōnídas).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Leonid (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Leonid is used in English.

Leonid comes through Ukrainian Леоні́д and Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leonidas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 494 boys were recorded with the name Leonid between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,736 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,151 in 2020 to #5,744 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,423 in 2015 to #5,744 in 2025.

How common is Leonid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,744
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leonid 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leonid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leonids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leonid was born before 2014 — so the typical Leonid is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
494
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (191).

Is Leonid 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
−1,469
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−593
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−321
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.3%
Peak was 2022 (30)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,736
2022

Spellings of Leonid

Leonid is not the most common spelling — Leonard is, with 55.8% against Leonid's 0.09%.

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.

Where Leonid is used

Across 1910–2025, Leonid was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 968,773 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Leonid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leonid around the world

Where Leonid 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
    2010–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1929–2025
    #6,143
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Leonid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,744
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 593
Best rank ever
#3,736
2022
Peak year
2022
30 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
494
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Leonid

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

LeodanLeonteLeoncioLeoneLeomarLeondreLeodisLeonceLeovanniLeotisLeonidesLeondroLeonellLeorLeonzoLeonaLeovaniLeoryLeothaLeopoldLeobardoLeontaeLeovardoLeonhard

Sibling names for Leonid

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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