Leonardo
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Leonardo
For centuries this name was associated primarily with the towering figure of Italian Renaissance painter-scientist-inventor Leonardo da Vinci, and was scarcely used outside the Latin culture.
But then along came Leonardo DiCaprio, who was supposedly given the name because his pregnant mother felt her first kick while looking at a da Vinci painting in the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence, and who would make the name young and handsome and multi-cultural.
Leonardo is a popular choice among other attractive Italian and Spanish names for boys, and its cousin Leo is popular as well.
Leonardo is also given to girls.
Pronounced lay-uh-NAR-do.
As of October 2026, Leonardo ranked #91 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #75 in 2022, Nameberry popularity #557.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #114 | 3,450 | 1,796.1 |
| 2015 | #103 | 3,821 | 1,993.5 |
| 2016 | #96 | 4,325 | 2,279 |
| 2017 | #97 | 4,131 | 2,231.8 |
| 2018 | #93 | 4,221 | 2,324.1 |
| 2019 | #86 | 4,425 | 2,466.3 |
| 2020 | #86 | 4,102 | 2,376.5 |
| 2021 | #87 | 4,104 | 2,345.8 |
| 2022 | #75 | 4,364 | 2,499.4 |
| 2023 | #84 | 4,028 | 2,354.8 |
| 2024 | #84 | 3,951 | 2,293.2 |
| 2025 | #91 | 3,789 | 2,218.3 |
World rankings
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Leonardo on lists
Famous Leonardos
- Leonardo Wilhelm "Leo" DiCaprioBoy
American actor
- Leonardo da VinciBoy
Renaissance artist and inventor
- Leonardo FibonacciBoy
Italian mathematician
- Leonardo "Leo" Encinas CruzBoy
son of actor Javier Bardem and actress Penelope Cruz
- Leonardo Fortunato PontiBoy
son of actress Sasha Alexander
- Leonardo Toni (b. 2014)Boy
son of footballer Luca Toni and model Marta Cecchetto
- Leonardo "Leo" Ángel Charles (b.2016)Boy
son of actor Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas Baldwin
- Leonardo Fábregas Semaan (b.2017)Boy
son of Spanish footballer Cesc Fábregas and girlfriend Daniella Semaan
Leonardo in pop culture
- LeonardoBoy
one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Leonardo "Leo" WyattBoy
character in TV show, Charmed
- Leonardo "Leo" WatchBoy
character in Blood Blockade Battlefront