Leandro
Masculine · “lion man”
Leandro is the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form of the Greek Leandros, a name that reaches back to the myth of Hero and Leander and the swim across the Hellespont. It has three easy syllables that end open and bright, and it has been carried in Latin, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian without ever needing to change its spelling.
How old is the name Leandro?
Leandro first appears in US birth records in 1906 — 119 years ago. The typical Leandro is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 10,000 people named Leandro are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leandro most popular?
Leandro peaked in 2025, reaching #406 nationally. Today it ranks #406, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Leandros to Leandro
The story of Leandro
The Greek Leandros belongs to one of the oldest love stories in European literature: Leander swam the strait each night to reach Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, steering by the lamp she held in her tower, and drowned the night the light went out. The tale was retold by Ovid in the Heroides and again by Christopher Marlowe in the sixteenth century, which kept the name in print through centuries when it was rarely given. Christianity gave it a second life in Leander of Seville, the sixth-century bishop and elder brother of Isidore of Seville; as San Leandro he is the saint the California city is named for. Leandro is the form that settled in Spain, Portugal, Italy and across Latin America, and it is the form most Leandros in the United States inherit.
Meaning
lion man
From Greek leon, "lion", joined to the stem of aner/andros, "man" — sometimes rendered "lion of a man".
How the name formed
- Leandros
- Leander
- Leandro
Related forms: Leandros · Leander · Léandre · Leander · Leandre · Leandro
Pronouncing Leandro
lay-AHN-droh
That is the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian pronunciation. English speakers often say lee-AN-droh, and both are widely accepted; the stress falls on the middle syllable either way.
Nicknames for Leandro
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1906
- Most boys named
- 2025785 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #406reached in 2025
- Change vs 2023
- +39.4%785 in 2025, from 563
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Leandro in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Leandros in Greek — transliteration
- Leander in English — same name
- Léandre in French — same name
- Leander in German — same name
- Leandre in Catalan — same name
- Leandro in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Leandros among us
people named Leandro are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 2,176 born in 2025 was named Leandro
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Coty test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Leandro's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Coty climbed just as high around 1992, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Coty's path sketches the road Leandro is walking now.
Leandro is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Leandro is headed
Leandro looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Leandro beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Leandro in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Works unchanged in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, so it travels across those languages without respelling or translation.
- Comes with Leo already attached — a short form in real use and a standalone name people know.
- Spelled the way it sounds in both English and Spanish; the letters offer no traps.
- A documented line from ancient Greek through Latin into the modern Romance languages, unbroken for well over two thousand years.
- It has two accepted pronunciations, the Spanish lay-AHN-droh and the anglicized lee-AN-droh. Most Leandros end up correcting one or the other, usually with a shrug rather than a fight.
- Outside Spanish-, Portuguese- and Italian-speaking circles it is still unfamiliar enough that he will often be the one explaining it, and it gets confused with Leander, Leonardo and the feminine Leandra.
- The myth behind the name ends in a drowning. Nobody hears that in the sound of it, but it is there if someone goes looking.
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Frequently asked
- How many Leandros are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 10,000 people named Leandro are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Leandro in 2025?
- Leandro ranks #406 among US boy names in 2025, with 785 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Leandro?
- About 1 in every 2,176 US boys born in 2025 was named Leandro — 785 in all.
- Will my child share the name Leandro with classmates?
- Leandro will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Leandro
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