Leő
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leő is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin leō (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, “lion”).
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 177as Leon
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 260as Leon
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Leő itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #231 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 566 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Leon, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Leon in PE Peru, PH Philippines, VE Venezuela and 2 more, Leo in NO Norway, IT Italy, CN China and Levon in PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Latinleō“lion”(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekλέωνléōn“lion”(measured from records)
Ultimately from Latin leō (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, “lion”).
Sources 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leő counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #17 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 651 | listed | Leon | 174 |
| CN China | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Leo | 99 |
| VE Venezuela | #45 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 260 | — | Leon | 119 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Leon | 103 |
| PE Peru | #36 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 306 | — | Leon | 145 |
| EC Ecuador | #7 | 95,574as Leon | 1 in 177 | 96K | Leon | 102 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 20,674as Leon | 1 in 247 | 21K | — | 110 |
| IT Italy | #792 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 285 | Leo | 110 |
| NO Norway | — | 12,712as Lien | 1 in 430 | 17K | Leo | 61 |
| PL Poland | — | 102 | 1 in 375K | 69K | Levon | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INEC — civil registry names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leő mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Latin leō (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, “lion”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 7 other sources.
- Is Leő a male or female name?
- Leő is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Leő have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 168 thousand people named Leon in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Leő?
- In Poland, the national register counted 102 people named Leő in 2026, about 1 in 375 thousand residents.
- How common is Leő compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Leő is the 17th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/le%C5%91The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Leő” — the 17th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.