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Lionardo

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Lionardo has been given to 163 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Lionardo, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lionardo: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lionardo means

Lionardo is a given name.

The naming story behind Lionardo

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Lionardo in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 77.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “It. Teu. lion strong”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Lionardo, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 163 boys were recorded with the name Lionardo between 1921 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,702 in 1921.

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.

How common is Lionardo?

Lionardo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lionardo 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lionardo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lionardos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lionardo was born before 2008 — so the typical Lionardo is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
153
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Choose a decade

2010s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Lionardo 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (11)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,702
1921

Spellings of Lionardo

Lionardo is not the most common spelling — Leonard is, with 74.8% against Lionardo's 0.04%.

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 Lionardo is used

Across 1910–2025, Lionardo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,326,346 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Lionardo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lionardo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,702
1921
Peak year
2014
11 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
163
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lionardo

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

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Sibling names for Lionardo

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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