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Leonard
Pronounced /ˈlɛnɚd/
Rank in 2024
#674
Born in 2024
404
Peak year
1921 · #39
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 404 boys were named Leonard, about 1 in every 4,246.
- It peaked in 1921 with 5,650 babies, ranked #39.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 293,884 boys have been named Leonard since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Leonard per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 4.8Greatest1901–27
- 3.6Silent1928–45
- 2.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 80,269 babies, 4.80 per 1,000. Silent: 74,269 babies, 3.60 per 1,000. Boomers: 79,079 babies, 2.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 29,183 babies, 1.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 14,053 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,375 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,881 babies, 0.22 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old French Leonard, name of a 6th century Frankish saint, from Old High German leo (“lion”) or Old High German liut (“person”) and hart (“hard”). As a surname, also used as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Leannáin (Lennon).
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈlɛnɚd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Leonard, CC BY-SA 4.0.