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Leonardo

Still rare in Poland but climbing fast: 78 boys were given it in 2025, more than in any year before, and it goes only to boys. A Latin name that reached Poland through Italian and Spanish, it carries the sense of a brave lion.

Leonardo Pronunciation

Leonardo is pronounced le-o-NAHR-do (/lɛɔˈnardɔ/).

Alive in 2025
1,683
Newborns 2025
78
National rank
#757

What Leonardo means

Where Leonardo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Leonardo begins with the Latin leo, lion. To that root a Germanic element meaning brave or strong was added, and the two together fix the short meaning: brave lion. Polish readers know the same idea as silny jak lew.

The name settled deepest in Italy and Spain. Its most famous bearer, Leonardo da Vinci, was born in 1452 near the Tuscan town of Vinci, and his single first name now stands for painting, engineering, and anatomy at once. That is a heavy inheritance for a boy on a class register, yet the name wears it lightly.

A Leonardo today can sign an official form at the urząd with all four syllables intact, since the name resists shortening. No standard Polish diminutive has fixed itself to it. What stays is the lion at the front and the old sense of strength behind it: brave lion, silny jak lew.

How many people are named Leonardo

1 in 12683 men in Poland is named Leonardo. 1,683 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #757 among male names.

People with the name Leonardo 2019 → 2025
1,683 +860 since 2019
2020 887 +64
2021 1,001 +114
2022 1,147 +146
2023 1,294 +147
2024 1,468 +174
2025 1,683 +215

Leonardo's popularity over time

78 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #275 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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78 newborns with the name Leonardo in 2025
national rank #275 that year

Where Leonardo is most popular

Leonardo is most popular in Lesser Poland, 66% above the national average (65 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+59%) and Pomeranian (+38%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and West Pomeranian, 84% and 79% below average respectively.

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Leonardo as a middle name

Leonardo is a first name for 1,683 men in Poland and a middle name for another 361, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 370th, between Ivan (363) and Viktor (361).

As a first name
1,683
As a middle name
361
first name 82% middle name 18%
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