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Leopold

After years near zero it's climbing back: more boys got it last year than in seasons past, though it stays rare enough that most Poles have never met one. The name is Germanic, built from roots meaning "brave people".

Leopold Pronunciation

Leopold is pronounced le-O-polt (/lɛˈɔpɔlt/).

Related names
Leopoldyna
Alive in 2025
2,837
Newborns 2025
52
National rank
#606
Next name day
15 November
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What Leopold means

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

Leopold grew from two Germanic words: liut, the people, and bald, bold or brave. Together they give brave people, the short meaning that follows the name still. Older forms like Liutbald and Leudbald show the shape it kept before Latin softened it.

Then a lion slipped in. Speakers heard leo at the front, the Latin word, and the spelling settled as Leo-pold. The lion arrived late. It was never the origin, though the image held on and gave the name a second face.

Saint Leopold III governed Austria in the twelfth century and became the country's patron. His feast, and so the Polish imieniny, falls on 15 November. Read a class register on that day and a Leopold might glance up, answering to a name that once meant a garrison's courage. The plain sense holds without the lion: brave among the people, odważny wśród ludu.

When Leopold celebrates name day

Leopold appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 15 November.

Next name day
15 November
Sunday in 2026
Next one in 66 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Leopold

1 in 7524 men in Poland is named Leopold. 2,837 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #606 among male names.

People with the name Leopold 2019 → 2025
2,837 -525 since 2019
2020 3,305 -57
2021 3,175 -130
2022 3,045 -130
2023 2,979 -66
2024 2,911 -68
2025 2,837 -74

Leopold's popularity over time

52 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #345 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005.

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52 newborns with the name Leopold in 2025
national rank #345 that year

Where Leopold is most popular

Leopold is most popular in Masovian, 110% above the national average (108 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+49%) and Pomeranian (+27%). It is least common in Lublin and Warmian-Masurian, 87% and 81% below average respectively.

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Leopold as a middle name

Leopold is a first name for 2,837 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3,219, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 147th, between Brunon (3,239) and Gracjan (3,179).

As a first name
2,837
As a middle name
3,219
first name 47% middle name 53%
Middle-name ranking men

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