Leon

“Lion” — Greek via Latin origin

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

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.

Around the world: #3 in Poland (2025) · #6 in Germany (2025) · #7 in Estonia (2024) · #8 in Austria (2025) · #8 in France (2025).

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

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 — mythological Greek character
Leon S. Kennedy — Resident Evil · Resident Evil 2
Leon Vance — NCIS: Los Angeles

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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