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Leopoldo

#3,108 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Leopold

Leopoldo has been given to 5,975 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #3,108 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Leopoldo, 2025

1 in 85,000

Leopoldo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leopoldo: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Leopold

Germanic languages

What Leopoldo means

Leopoldo is a English equivalent of Leopold.

Origin, language, and formation

Leopoldo is used in Basque, Cebuano, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leopold.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Leopoldo is pronounced /leopoldo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,975 boys were recorded with the name Leopoldo between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 1980; its best national rank was #783 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,243 in 2020 to #3,108 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,705 in 2015 to #3,108 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 Leopoldo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 43,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,108
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leopoldo 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leopoldo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leopoldos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leopoldo was born before 1978 — so the typical Leopoldo is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
13.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,448
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 13.3% of all recorded uses (797).

Is Leopoldo 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
+204
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+135
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−403
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.4%
Peak was 1980 (92)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#783
1929

Spellings of Leopoldo

Leopoldo is the most-used spelling, taking 59.6% of the 10,018 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Leopoldo59.6%5,975
  • Leopold40.4%4,043

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 Leopoldo is used

Across 1910–2025, Leopoldo was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 4,348 boys, against 1 in 16,489 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

023 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 4,348
  2. 2Texas1 in 6,250
  3. 3California1 in 10,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Leopoldo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leopoldo around the world

Where Leopoldo 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
    2019–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1925–2018
    #6,321
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1956–1976
    #651
    in 1976

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

Notable people named Leopoldo

People whose public names include Leopoldo, 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.

Leopoldo in other languages

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

LeopoldLipótLéopold

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

Leopoldo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,108
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 135
Best rank ever
#783
1929
Peak year
1980
92 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,975
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Leopoldo

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

LeonidasLeobardoLeopoldReinaldoRonaldoOswaldoLeonidesArnoldoReynaldoLeovanniOsbaldoRenaldoLeonardoOsvaldoLeondreGeraldoLeonelArnaldoLeoncioWaldoUbaldoRaynaldoLeonidLeondro

Names with a curve like Leopoldo

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

RosendoHilarioReyesFerminClementeDelvinEugenioArnulfoMarshalGregorioReymundoFaustino

Sibling names for Leopoldo

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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