Leonīds
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
Leonīds is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 773(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 70K
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 773 (inferred from the name graph)
2,433 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leonids in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NO Norway and 3 more.
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)a male given name from Ancient Greek
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leonīds 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #168 | 2,433 | 1 in 773 | 2.4K | Leonīds | 50 |
| US United States | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Leonids | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Leonids | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Leonids | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 530K | 44 | Leonids | 4 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | Leonids | 7 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 144K | listed | Leonids | 7 |
| IS Iceland | — | 5 | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | — |
2,433 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Leonīds is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Leonid Andreyevb. 1871RUnot in their usual nameRussian playwright, author and poet (1871–1919)
- Leonid Govorovb. 1897RUnot in their usual nameSoviet marshal (1897–1955)
- Leonid Leonovb. 1899RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1899–1994)
- Leonid Kinskeyb. 1903USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1903-1998)
- Leonid Brezhnevb. 1906UAnot in their usual nameGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
- Leonid Kantorovichb. 1912RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1912-1986)
- Leonid Hurwiczb. 1917USnot in their usual namePolish-American economist and mathematician (1917–2008)
- Leonid Gaidaib. 1923RUnot in their usual nameSoviet film director (1923-1993)
- Leonid Koganb. 1924RUnot in their usual nameSoviet violinist (1924–1982)
- Leonid Slutskyb. 1971RUnot in their usual nameRussian football coach (born 1971)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2.4K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2.4K | #226 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leonīds mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Leonīds?
- In the etymology graph, Leonid, Leonidas and Leonida are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Leonīds a male or female name?
- Leonīds is a female 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 Leonīds have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Leonīds, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leonīds.
- Where is Leonīds most common?
- Leonīds is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 773 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Leonīds?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 2,433 people named Leonīds, about 1 in 773 residents.
- How common is Leonīds compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Leonīds is the 168th most common given name of 11,601 given names 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/leon%C4%ABdsThe 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, “Leonīds” — the 168th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.