Leonidas

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Leonidas: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Leonidas: Recorded every year since 1997, its highest recorded position is #419, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#419highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2859
1998	#2074
1999	#2943
2000	#2142
2001	#1746
2002	#2254
2003	#1962
2004	#2304
2005	#2754
2006	#1545
2007	#952
2008	#894
2009	#724
2010	#854
2011	#852
2012	#682
2013	#621
2014	#670
2015	#571
2016	#585
2017	#517
2018	#549
2019	#518
2020	#448
2021	#431
2022	#472
2023	#419
2024	#475

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #475 among boys in England and Wales, #727 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #419 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Leonidas appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 1,171 births with the name.

Leonidas across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Leonidas's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#419 (2023)	#475 (2024)	28 of 28	1,171 (1997–2024)	97 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#730 (2011)	#718 (2012)	#829 (2025)	3 of 15	9 (2011–2025)	3 (2011)

Leonidas by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Leonidas in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	3 of 10	4
2000s	144	10 of 10	14
2010s	568	10 of 10	57
2020sbusiest	448	5 of 10	90

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 90 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Leonidas appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #419 in England and Wales in 2023.

Leonidas's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#475	84	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#419	93	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#472	84	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#431	97	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#448	90	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#518	75	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#549	68	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#517	76	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#585	62	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#571	65	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#670	50	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#621	55	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#682	49	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#852	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#854	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#724	41	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#894	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#952	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1545	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #419, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 97 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Leoni · #320, 32y
Leonid · #1906, 13y
Leonie · #49, 73y
Leonna · #516, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alissa · #419, 29y
Dolcie · #419, 26y
Isabela · #418, 28y
Zaria · #418, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aimee-Louise · #419, 17y
Alecia · #419, 26y
Alissa · #419, 29y
Delphine · #419, 29y

Leonidas was ranked #419 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Leonidas and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Leonidas without appearing here.

Leonidas moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2754 and #2754 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1545 and #4052.
Leif Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2754 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1545 and #4052.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2304 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1545 and #4052.
Morten Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2754 and #2754 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1545 and #3385.

Moved the opposite way to Leonidas

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leonidas went from #2859 to #475 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leonidas went from #2859 to #475 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leonidas went from #2859 to #475 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leonidas went from #2859 to #475 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Leonidas

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leonidas went from #2859 to #475 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leonidas went from #2859 to #475 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leonidas went from #2859 to #475 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Leonidas went from #2859 to #475 and Archie from #141 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #419 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Leonidas

Leonidas at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Leonidas across 2 official records

Leonidas by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Leonidas appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Leonidas at a glance

Leonidas across 2 official records

Leonidas by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Leonidas appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Leonidas

Leonidas and the names beside it

Leonidas moved ahead of

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