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Leon

Boy's name · #138 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Popularity over time

Leon holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#138 in 2025). About 183,000 boys have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

See where Leon is more common.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

Leon is especially popular in Poland, Germany, and France.

#3 in Poland (2025) · #6 in Germany (2025) · #8 in France (2025) · #8 in Austria (2025) · #10 in Switzerland (2025) · #10 in Finland (other-lang.) (2025) · #11 in Belgium (2025) · #14 in Slovenia (2025) · #16 in Croatia (2025) · #17 in Sweden (2025) · #25 in Finland (Finnish-sp.) (2025) · #46 in Norway (2025) and 15 more.

Famous Leons

• Leon Trotsky — Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
• Leon Battista Alberti — Italian architect and writer (1404–1472)
• Léon Foucault — French physicist (1819–1868)
• Leon M. Lederman — American mathematician and physicist
• Leon Cooper — American physicist (1930–2024)

In stories & tradition

• Leon of Sparta — Greek mythology
• Leon S. Kennedy — Resident Evil 2 (video game)
• Leon Vance^fr — NCIS: Los Angeles (TV series)

What Leons become

Among 4,803 notable people named Leon:

Lawyers & judges appear 1.6× more often than among typical names — e.g. Léon Duguit, French legal scholar (1859–1928).

Similar names: Levon · Warren · Leonard · Victor · Lewis · Calvin

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