Leonard

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: French

Meaning

Leonard is a common English surname and a masculine given name. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German Leonhard containing the prefix levon from the Greek ฮ›ฮญฯ‰ฮฝ through the Latin Leo, and the suffix hardu.

From Wikipedia

Leonard first appears in the data in 1955 and has been recorded in 60 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1962 with 141 babies (rank #129 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Leonard

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Leonard yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

3,371
Total babies (all years)
60
Years in the data
141
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1955120#122
195698#155
1957122#134
1958107#153
1959112#156
1960118#146
1961118#156
1962141#129
1963108#175
1964109#176
1965109#173
196697#185
1967116#166
1968122#156
196995#194
1970100#189
197190#191
197264#236
197376#201
197453#257
197553#250
197644#282
197744#279
197843#286
197948#267
198048#277
198146#284
198241#313
198337#328
198444#300
198541#322
198646#301
198741#341
198834#390
198944#343
199037#396
199136#402
199232#434
199348#324
199429#458
199535#401
199625#491
199735#402
199833#425
199927#487
200036#402
200139#397
200220#552
200329#454
200422#515
200514#654
200623#490
200716#573
200817#561
200915#601
201019#518
201114#605
201214#588
201314#574
201413#609