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Leopold

#2,001 in 2025Boys' name

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Leopold has been given to 4,043 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,001 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 120 recorded.

Babies named Leopold, 2025

1 in 43,600

Leopold over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leopold: meaning, origin, and history

People + bold

Germanic languages and Old High German

What Leopold means

Leopold means “people + bold”, associated with liut and bald.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old French Leopold, from Old High German liut (“people”) + bald (“bold”). The first part is sometimes associated by folk etymology with Latin leo (“lion”), as in Leo and Leonard. More at lede, bold.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Leopold is used in English, Czech, Dutch, German and Slovak. Its origins include Germanic languages and Old High German.

Leopold comes through Old French Leopold and Old High German liut.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include leo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Leopold is pronounced /ˈliːəpoʊld/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,043 boys were recorded with the name Leopold between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 120 in 2020; its best national rank was #591 in 1895.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,444 in 2020 to #2,001 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,699 in 2015 to #2,001 in 2025.

How common is Leopold?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,600
76 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 22,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,001
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leopold 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,237 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leopold. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leopolds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leopold was born before 1972 — so the typical Leopold is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,370
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Choose a decade

2010s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (808).

Is Leopold 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
+70
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−557
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−302
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.3%
Peak was 2020 (120)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#591
1895

Spellings of Leopold

Leopold is not the most common spelling — Leopoldo is, with 59.6% against Leopold's 40.4%.

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 Leopold is used

Across 2016–2025, Leopold was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 22,037 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

126 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 3,846
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 9,091
  3. 3New York1 in 12,500
  4. 4Colorado1 in 16,667
  5. 5California1 in 20,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 25,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 25,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 33,333

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.

Leopold around the world

Where Leopold 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
    1996–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #680
    in 2014
  • France
    1900–2025
    #211
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #857
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Leopold

People whose public names include Leopold, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leopold in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Leopold. Linked forms have their own page here.

LeopoldoLipótLuitpold

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Leopold by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,001
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 557
Best rank ever
#591
1895
Peak year
2020
120 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,043
Count in 2025
76

Names similar to Leopold

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

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Names with a curve like Leopold

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leopold, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Leopold

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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