Name: Leo

Gender: Male

Usage: Leo, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.

People having the name Leo are in general originating from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Variants: For another variant of the name Leo across the world, see Léo.

Name Meaning of Leo

Meaning: The meaning of the name Leo is: Lion.

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Numerology Interpretation

Numerology of the first name Leo: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond

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Popularity of the Name

The name Leo is ranked on the 498th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.

We estimate that there are at least 1231300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.017% of the population. The name Leo has three characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.

The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Leo for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:

Name Day Calendar

The name day of Leo is 11 April.

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History and Origin

The given name Leo comes from the Latin word leo, meaning "lion". It can also be a nickname for a name such as Leonard or Leopold.

The name can refer to several people:

In history:

  • Leo the Great, Pope
  • The name of twelve other popes
  • Patriarch Leo of Constantinople (fl. 1134-1143)
  • Six Byzantine emperors
  • Five kings of Armenian Cilicia

In sports:

  • Leo Barry, Australian Rules Football player
  • Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football (soccer) manager
  • Leo Bosschart, Dutch football (soccer) player
  • Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager
  • Leo Fortune-West, English footballer
  • Leo Klein Gebbink, Dutch field hockey player
  • Leo Mazzone, pitching coach for the Atlanta Braves and the Baltimore Orioles
  • Leo Messi, Argentinian soccer player
  • Leo Peelen, Dutch track cyclist
  • Leo Visser, Dutch ice speed skater
  • Leo van Vliet, Dutch road bicycle racer
  • Usain St. Leo Bolt, Olympic athlete
  • Leo Howard star of Disney XD's Kickin' It

Fictional characters:

  • Leo Corbett, on the television series Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
  • Leo Jones (Doctor Who), on the television series Doctor Who
  • Leo McGarry, on the television series The West Wing
  • Leo Wyatt, on the television series Charmed
  • Uncle Leo, on the television series Seinfeld
  • Leo Valdez, demigod son of Hephaestus from Heroes of Olympus
  • Leo Kliesen, a German spelunker whose fighting style is Bajiquan in the Tekken series
  • Leo Kovalensky, from the novel "We the Living" by Ayn Rand

Other people:

  • Léo, Brazilian comics writer
  • Léo Stronda, Brazilian singer
  • Leo Arnaud, French-American composer
  • Leo de Berardinis (1940-2008), Italian stage actor and theatre director
  • Leo G. Carroll, English actor
  • Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel Laureate
  • Leo Fender (1909-1991), maker of electric guitars
  • Leo Frank, American Jew murdered by a lynch mob in 1915
  • Leo Gorcey, American actor
  • Leo Irakliotis, Greek computer scientist
  • Leo Jogiches, Marxist revolutionary
  • Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer and actor
  • Leo Laporte, American technology broadcaster and author
  • Leo Major, French-Canadian World War II hero
  • Léo Rispal, French singer
  • Leo Ryan, California Congressman; killed at Jonestown
  • Leo Strauss, American political philosopher
  • Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist
  • Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
  • Leo Sayer, Pop Musician

English: from a Late Latin personal name, meaning ‘lion’, which was borne by a large number of early Christian saints, most notably Pope Leo the Great (?390–461). It is also found as a Jewish name (see Leon). In modern use it seems also to have been given as an omen name by parents who wished for a ‘lion-hearted’ son.
Cognates: French: Léon. Italian: Leone. Spanish: León. Portuguese: Leão. Catalan: Lleó. Czech: Leoš.

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