Leonel
Leonel reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 317, and has been recorded 27,072 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 350th. About 25,000 Leonels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Leonel boys named Leonel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 27,072
- Estimated living today
- 25,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 317th
- Rank in 2025
- 350th
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 27,067
How old the living Leonels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 27,072 babies given the name since 1910, about 25,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 15,000 of them are children and 600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Leonels
- Leonel Fernández (born 1953)former president of the Dominican Republic
- Leonel Sánchez (1936–2022)Chilean footballer
- Leonel Álvarez (born 1965)Colombian soccer coach
- Leonel Moreira (born 1990)Costa Rican footballer
- Leonel Vangioni (born 1987)Argentine footballer
- Leonel Suárez (born 1987)Cuban decathlete
- Leonel Brizola (1922–2004)Brazilian politician
- Leonel Manzano (born 1984)Mexican-American middle-distance track and field athlete
People named Leonel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Leonel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Leonel is most concentrated in Texas (4.0×), Nevada (3.6×), Arizona (3.5×), California (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Leonel peaked:
Leonel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Leonel +1 spelling | 1,305 | 309th |
| England and Wales boys | Leonel | 184 | 1,461st |
| Switzerland boys | Leonel | 174 | 443rd |
| Belgium boys | Leonel +1 spelling | 37 | 1,232nd |
| Norway boys | Leonel | 25 | 236th |
| Poland boys | Leonel | 13 birth registrations | 490th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Leonel: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Leonel | 148 | 0.012% | 321st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Leonel | 24 | 0.006% | 496th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Leonel | 2 | 0.003% | 200th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Leonel is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 50 of them.
Leonel: rank by region
In 2025, Leonel was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Leonel | 806 | 6 |
In 2025, Leonel was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Leonel | 269 | 3 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Leonel appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (254th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Leonel by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 546th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Leonel among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Leonel | 272 | 581 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Leonel lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,161 men called Leonel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ourense | Leonel | 20 | 0.136 | 484 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Leonel | 69 | 0.129 | 725 |
| Palmas, Las | Leonel | 71 | 0.122 | 770 |
| Balears, Illes | Leonel | 45 | 0.072 | 915 |
| Málaga | Leonel | 61 | 0.070 | 847 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Leonel | 69 | 0.069 | 1,027 |
Listed in 41 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 11 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Leonel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.