Leopold
Leopold was given to 76 boys in 2025, #2,001 among boys’ names; 4,043 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,350 Americans named Leopold and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leopold by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Leopold mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Leopold is “a male given name from the Germanic languages. Used in the 19th century but rare today.” Its etymology gives the senses “people” (liut) and “bold” (bald).
From Old French Leopold, from Old High German liut (“people”) + bald (“bold”). The first part is sometimes associated by folk etymology with Latin leo (“lion”), as in Leo and Leonard.
/ˈliːəpoʊld/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Leopold?
#2,001 among boys’ names, 2025
Leopold fell from #1,699 in 2015 to #2,001 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 48.0 to 44.5 per million.
120 babies in 2020, the peak
Leopold peaked in 2020, when 120 boys were given it, #1,444 among boys’ names. The 76 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,001 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,071 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 87 | #1,841 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,671 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,654 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 120 | #1,444 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,610 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,511 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,549 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 91 | #1,714 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (137)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 92 | #1,699 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,052 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,079 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,197 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,390 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,341 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,733 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,450 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,789 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,128 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,823 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,925 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,584 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,319 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,218 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,627 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,210 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,943 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,372 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,062 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,682 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,433 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,281 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,367 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,559 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,974 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,333 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,325 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,341 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,776 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,276 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,318 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,991 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,026 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,995 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,607 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,078 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,362 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,629 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,893 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #2,012 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,226 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,772 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,084 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,015 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,943 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,991 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,738 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,864 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 21 | #1,687 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,242 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,783 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,546 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #1,683 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 19 | #1,732 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,685 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,823 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #1,994 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,516 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,856 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,449 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,006 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,421 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,242 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,050 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,960 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,347 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,179 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,125 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,152 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,166 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,005 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,412 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,167 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 40 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,140 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 55 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,005 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 66 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 73 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 68 | #824 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 68 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 67 | #823 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 48 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 50 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 67 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 79 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 57 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 57 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 40 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 37 | #711 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 19 | #744 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 14 | #842 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,053 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 12 | #805 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 10 | #908 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 8 | #970 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 8 | #973 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,223 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 11 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 10 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 10 | #877 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 7 | #911 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 9 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 8 | #863 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 13 | #591 | 0.11 |
| 1893 | 7 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 10 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 8 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 6 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 7 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 7 | #810 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 9 | #676 | 0.08 |
| 1881 | 7 | #747 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 8 | #717 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leopold a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leopold has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 137 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Leopold: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leopold, and how old are they?
2,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 4,043 Americans ever recorded as Leopold. The median Leopold alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,449 people named Leopold (10 women and girls, 2,439 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,948 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 71 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 214 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 165 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 158 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 553 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Leopold born?
The states with the most babies named Leopold are Wisconsin, New York and Texas, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Wisconsin is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 10 | #507 | 0.9× |
| New York | 7 | #1,503 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,802 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,396 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,995 | 0.2× |
Where Leopold is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Leopold is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Leopold with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Leopold
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Leopold and names like it
- Compare Leopold and IverBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLeopold peaked in 2020.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leopold since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Leopold: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Leopold.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leopold alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.