Leo meaning, origin, history

Name: Leo No. of characters: 3 Gender: BoyOrigin: German Dutch Swedish Norwegian Danish Finnish English Croatian Late Roman Latin
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Meanings: Lion Brave Lion-bold Brave People Lion-man Leo Greek, Latin origin, meaning: lion Short form of Leonhard (meaning composition of "Lion" and "strong") and Leopold (meaning composition of "folk" and "bold"). Pope popular name. Namesakes: Leon Trotsky, Soviet politician.

Leo was ranked 91 in 2015 US male names list and elevated by 6.19% from its previous ranking of 97 in 2014. Leo was ranked 958 in 2015 list of US girls name and dropped by 1.70% from its previous ranking of 942 in 2014.

Full form of Leo : Light-Hearted Eccentric Obliging

Leo is a very very popular first name for a boy in England & Wales which is popular since 2001 and ranked 16 in 2014. Around 27950 people wear Leo as their first name. Leo is a very consistent name over the past 18 years.

Leo is a very very popular first name for a boy in United States which is popular since 1888 and ranked 91 (0.115119% bearer) in 2015 in US. Around 188733 people wear Leo as their first name. Leo is a rare first name for a girl in United States which is a rare name since 1880 and ranked 91 (0.115119% bearer) in 2015 in US. Only 188733 people have Leo as their first name. Leo is not a native United States and Leo may be came from another language or is a short form of some other name. 0.052795% of people in US have this given name.

Complete history of Leo

Year	Rank	Occurence
Popular boy name in
1888	56	353
1889	57	325
1890	45	393
1891	51	353
1892	49	444
1893	43	448
1894	41	515


1895	40	509
1896	46	497
1897	46	462
1898	39	588
1899	42	482
1900	46	570
1901	42	456
1902	42	551
1903	37	636
1904	42	552
1905	45	512
1906	47	508
1907	42	651
1908	46	584
1909	49	609
1910	50	707
1911	51	844
1912	49	1654
1913	48	2031
1914	47	2656
1915	47	3528
1916	47	3620
1917	47	3779
1918	48	4035
1919	49	3802
1920	48	4054
1921	50	4068
1922	51	3901
1923	49	3973
1924	51	3989
1925	54	3773
1926	54	3554
1927	54	3533
1928	61	3093
1929	60	3019
1930	63	3033
1931	65	2704
1932	74	2498
1933	75	2348
1934	85	2308
1935	92	2142
1936	92	2016
1937	96	2015
1938	104	1950
1939	107	1840
1940	112	1752
1941	115	1726
1942	118	1799
1943	133	1694
1944	131	1593
1945	137	1579
1946	146	1647
1947	147	1805
1948	149	1717
1949	153	1646
1950	159	1555
1951	155	1658
1952	167	1563
1953	160	1650
1954	171	1606
1955	171	1578
1956	183	1546
1957	188	1520
1958	195	1422
1959	202	1432
1960	228	1204
1961	227	1177
1962	230	1103
1963	233	1015
1964	228	1027
1965	240	904
1966	243	856
1967	257	769
1968	269	693
1969	264	743
1970	286	703
1971	287	652
1972	315	549
1973	316	509
1974	318	513
1975	314	517
1976	324	480
1977	339	484
1978	332	479
1979	335	483
1980	346	476
1981	321	532
1982	343	484
1983	365	428
1984	371	431
1985	372	446
1986	385	415
1987	382	453
1988	392	449
1989	417	425
1990	444	429
1991	409	506
1992	426	468
1993	416	456
1994	425	474
1995	436	446
1996	424	447
1997	426	457
1998	400	527
1999	407	523
2000	371	657
2001	346	735
2002	329	809
2003	279	1095
2004	258	1238
2005	255	1272
2006	228	1500
2007	234	1528
2008	226	1625
2009	206	1797
2010	189	1940
2011	167	2245
2012	134	2871
2013	112	3503
2014	97	3952
2015	91	4561
General boy name in
1880	87	147
1881	89	122
1882	89	146
1883	91	142
1884	80	192
1885	79	199
1886	72	240
1887	70	232
General girl name in
1914	481	35
1915	518	48
1916	520	59
1917	533	51
1918	536	62
1919	545	53
1920	547	62
1921	553	50
1922	559	50
1923	564	51
1924	567	48
1925	570	53
1926	559	52
1927	547	58
1928	572	44
1930	540	46
1931	556	39
Rare girl name in
1880	212	6
1881	216	6
1884	237	6
1885	244	11
1886	258	8
1887	258	6
1888	279	10
1889	282	8
1890	287	12
1891	284	8
1892	295	14
1893	295	19
1894	317	10
1895	324	7
1896	311	22
1897	319	12
1898	326	20
1899	326	10
1900	344	17
1901	320	12
1902	340	14
1903	336	11
1904	334	19
1905	347	14
1906	351	11
1907	370	16
1908	360	22
1909	374	19
1910	388	25
1911	398	18
1912	455	17
1913	460	26
1929	567	28
1932	560	22
1933	557	23
1934	558	19
1935	571	13
1936	565	16
1937	571	13
1938	573	14
1939	573	14
1940	580	15
1941	590	15
1942	617	15
1943	623	11
1944	625	10
1945	599	11
1946	641	13
1947	675	8
1948	682	5
1949	672	10
1950	675	6
1951	688	5
1952	698	6
1953	691	13
1954	732	6
1955	721	9
1956	745	9
1957	763	8
1958	750	9
1959	769	11
1960	777	9
1962	773	9
1963	771	6
1964	772	9
1965	753	6
1967	745	8
1968	747	5
1970	781	6
1971	768	7
1972	751	7
1973	743	8
1975	756	7
1976	743	7
1977	770	5
1978	768	7
1981	785	6
1982	788	6
1983	768	7
1985	796	5
1987	801	7
1988	818	6
1989	831	5
1993	856	6
1995	860	5
2002	899	6
2003	901	8
2004	938	5
2005	943	7
2008	986	5
2009	964	6
2011	938	6
2012	934	8
2013	928	9
2014	942	16
2015	958	11

Full Historical data

Expression number of Leo is 5.

Leo love adventure, excitement and freedom. Leo are clever, quick-witted and unusually adaptable. Leo are capable of doing anything they wish for.

Names that rhyme with Leo Amileo, Angleo, Aquileo, Cleo, Deangleo, Emileo, Galileo, Jaleo, Kaileo, Kaleo, Kleo, LeoFamous people named Leo

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Mary McLeod in London Blackout Murders as Actress

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Leonora Hornblow in Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies as

Leona Helmsley in 1989 as

Jenny Leonhardt in Eloise at Large as Actress

Lili Leon in A la cama con Porcel as Actress

Pinky de Leon in Santa santita as Actress

Leonie Norton in One Life to Live as Actress

Leona Gage in Tales of Terror as Actress

Leo G. Carroll, actor

Leo Brouwer, composer

Leo F. Forbstein, composer

Leo Corey Castellano, special effects

Leo Hurwitz, director,producer,writer

Leo Abaya, production designer,writer

Leo Abbey, actor

Leo Acosta, composer

Leo Adolfson, actor

Léo Baptistão is a Brazilian soccer player. He plays for striker

Leo G. Carroll, actor

Leo Brouwer, composer

Leo F. Forbstein, composer

Leo Corey Castellano, special effects

Leo Hurwitz, director,producer,writer

Leo Abaya, production designer,writer

Leo Abbey, actor

Leo Acosta, composer

Leo Adolfson, actor

Names like Leo Leo, Leoba, Leobardo, Leocadia, Leocadio, Leoda, Leodan, Leodbriht, Leodegance, Leodegario, Leodegran, Leodegrance, Leodhere, Leodis, Leodore, Leodwald, Leof, Leofa, Leofard, LeofecaLeo Namesakes Comments :Leo is a proper name Italian male. The name has come from the Latin name Imperial Leo, literally " lion ". It was very popular among the early Christians and was chosen by thirteen popes. The names Leone and Lev , the source respectively the Greek and Russian, are the related, thus having the same meaning, and it is not uncommon to be used interchangeably with each other (as in the case of the various popes with this name, or the famous writer Leo Tolstoy ); the name Leonio is instead a derivative thereof. Meaningfully, Leo can be compared, in addition to the aforementioned Leone and Lev, even to ' the Arab Osama and all' Jewish Ari. Versions in other languages of the name are Czech : Leoš, Croatian : Leo, Danish : Leo, Finnish : Leo, French : Léo, English : Leo, Female: Leola, Latin : Leo, Norwegian : Leo, Russian : Лев ( Lev ), Dutch : Leo, Portuguese : Léo, Swedish : Leo, German : Leo, Hungarian : Leó. - Alexia Hurless

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