Gender:
Origin:
Greek,
Latin
2055 famous people named Leo found on Wikipedia.
204797 male, 1949 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
50-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
38-th in year 1903
Used in: Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Late-Roman, Norwegian, Swedish
A male given name: from a Greek word meaning “lion.”.
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.
Lion, name of many early Christian saints. Short form of Leon or Leopold, means: brave people.
| Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo Tolstoy | 1828 | Russian writer |
| 2 | Melissa Leo | 1960 | American actress |
| 3 | Leo Varadkar | 1979 | Irish Fine Gael politician |
| 4 | Leo Sayer | 1948 | British singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer |
| 5 | Leo Howard | 1997 | American actor |
| 6 | Leo Frank | 1884 | Jewish-American factory superintendent |
| 7 | Leo Ryan | 1925 | American teacher and politician |
| 8 | Leo Fitzpatrick | 1978 | American actor |
| 9 | Leo Strauss | 1899 | Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism |
| 10 | Leo Penn | 1921 | American actor |
| 11 | Leo Gorcey | 1917 | American actor |
| 12 | Leo Durocher | 1905 | American baseball player and coach |
| 13 | Leo McGarry | 1948 | Character in The West Wing |
| 14 | Leo G. Carroll | 1892 | Actor |
| 15 | Leo Fender | 1909 | American inventor and founder of the Fender company |
| 16 | Leo McKern | 1920 | Australian actor |
| 17 | Leo Burnett | 1891 | American advertising executive |
| 18 | Leó Szilárd | 1898 | Physicist and biologist |
| 19 | Leo Jiménez | 1979 | Spanish singer |
| 20 | Leo Kottke | 1945 | American guitarist and singer |
| 21 | Leo Harlem | 1962 | |
| 22 | Leo Gregory | 1978 | British actor |
| 23 | Leo Wyatt | 1924 | Fictional human |
| 24 | Leo Gordon | 1922 | Actor |
| 25 | Leo | 1919 | Character from the "That '70s Show" |
| 26 | Leo Bill | 1980 | British actor |
| 27 | Leo Buscaglia | 1924 | Motivational speaker, writer |
| 28 | Leo Komarov | 1987 | Ice hockey player |
| 29 | Leo III the Isaurian | 0675 | Emperor of Byzantine Empire |
| 30 | Leo Laporte | 1956 | American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur |
| 31 | Leo Africanus | 1494 | Moroccan author |
| 32 | Leo Baekeland | 1863 | Belgian-American chemist |
| 33 | Leo Rojas | 1984 | Ecuadorian musician |
| 34 | Leo Carrillo | 1881 | American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist |
| 35 | Leo VI the Wise | 0866 | Byzantine Emperor |
| 36 | Leo Beenhakker | 1942 | Dutch footballer |
| 37 | Leo Genn | 1905 | Actor |
| 38 | Leo I the Thracian | 0401 | Byzantine Emperor |
| 39 | Asha Leo | 1985 | English model |
| 40 | Leo O'Brien | 1970 | American actor |
| 41 | Leo Rautins | 1960 | Basketball player |
| 42 | Leo Dan | 1942 | Argentine singer |
| 43 | Leo Ku | 1972 | Hong Kong pop singer |
| 44 | Leo von Caprivi | 1831 | German major general and statesman |
| 45 | Leo Echegaray | 1960 | Filipino rapist |
| 46 | Leo Ford | 1957 | American pornographic actor |
| 47 | Leo Esaki | 1925 | Japanese physicist |
| 48 | Leo IV the Khazar | 0750 | Byzantine emperor |
| 49 | Leo Kanner | 1896 | American psychiatrist |
| 50 | Leo McCarey | 1898 | American film director, screenwriter and producer |
| 51 | Leo Brouwer | 1939 | Cuban composer, conductor, and guitarist |
| 52 | Leo Alkemade | 1980 | Dutch actor and cabaret artist |
| 53 | Leo II | 0467 | Byzantine emperor |
| 54 | Leo Singer | 1877 | Austrian Vaudeville producer |
| 55 | Leo Amery | 1873 | Politician and journalist |
| 56 | Leo Abrahams | 1977 | English record producer and musician |
| 57 | Leo Blokhuis | 1961 | Dutch television presenter and presenter |
| 58 | Ted Leo | 1970 | Punk rock/indie rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist |
| 59 | Leo Rossi | 1946 | American actor |
| 60 | Leo K. Thorsness | 1932 | United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient |
| 61 | Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg | 1886 | German general |
| 62 | Leo Grand | ||
| 63 | Leo V the Armenian | 0775 | Byzantine emperor (lived 775–820) |
| 64 | Leo Ornstein | 1893 | American composer and pianist |
| 65 | Leo Hurwitz | 1909 | Documentary film director |
| 66 | Leo Lionni | 1910 | Dutch-Italian artist and children's writer |
| 67 | Leo Sutanto | 1947 | |
| 68 | Leo Marks | 1920 | British cryptographer, playwright and screenwriter |
| 69 | Leo Rosten | 1908 | American writer |
| 70 | Leo Beranek | 1914 | American acoustical engineer |
| 71 | Leo Kadanoff | 1937 | American physicist |
| 72 | Leo Baxendale | 1930 | Cartoonist |
| 73 | Leo Sternbach | 1908 | Polish American chemist |
| 74 | Leo Ajkic | 1983 | Bosnian actor and television presenter |
| 75 | Leo Franco | 1977 | Argentine footballer |
| 76 | Leo Castelli | 1907 | American art dealer |
| 77 | Leo Martinez | 1963 | Filipino actor |
| 78 | Leo Breiman | 1928 | American statistician |
| 79 | Leo Burmester | 1944 | American actor |
| 80 | Leo Mechelin | 1839 | Finnish politician and academic |
| 81 | Leo Rosenwasser | 1955 | Argentine actor |
| 82 | Leo Houlding | 1980 | British rock climber |
| 83 | Leo Mazzone | 1948 | American baseball player and coach |
| 84 | Leo Resig | American businessman | |
| 85 | Leo Burke | 1948 | Canadian wrestler |
| 86 | Leo Zuckermann | 1964 | |
| 87 | Leo J. Meyer | 1917 | Recipient of the Purple Heart medal |
| 88 | Leo Wu | 1999 | Chinese actor |
| 89 | Leo Glynn | ||
| 90 | Leo Lastumäki | 1927 | Finnish actor (1927-2012) |
| 91 | Leo Turrini | 1960 | Italian journalist and writer |
| 92 | Leo Baeck | 1873 | Rabbi, scholar, and leader of Progressive Judaism |
| 93 | Leo Cullen | 1978 | Irish rugby union player |
| 94 | Leo Stolz | 1991 | German footballer |
| 95 | Leo Platvoet | 1951 | Dutch politician |
| 96 | Leo Stein | 1872 | American art collector and critic |
| 97 | Leo Arnaud | 1904 | French-American composer of Bugler's Dream |
| 98 | Leo Abse | 1917 | British politician |
| 99 | Leo Jogiches | 1867 | Marxist revolutionary |
| 100 | Leo Chambers | 1995 | Professional footballer |
| 101 | Leo Frobenius | 1873 | German ethnologist and archaeologist |
| 102 | Leo Nomellini | 1924 | American football player and professional wrestler |
| 103 | Leonard Leo | 1965 | American lawyer |
| 104 | Leo Burt | 1948 | American fugitive |
| 105 | Leo von Klenze | 1784 | German architect |
| 106 | Leo Ieiri | 1994 | Japanese singer |
| 107 | Leo Nocentelli | 1946 | Guitarist, musician |
| 108 | Leo Blair | 1923 | British barrister |
| 109 | Leo Tindemans | 1922 | Belgian former prime minister |
| 110 | Leo Rosner | 1918 | Australian musician |
| 111 | Hadi Leo | 1965 | |
| 112 | Leo I, King of Armenia | 1150 | First king of Cilician Armenia |
| 113 | Leo Giamani | 1978 | American pornographic actor |
| 114 | Leo Austria | 1958 | Filipino basketball player |
| 115 | Leo Robin | 1900 | American composer |
| 116 | Leo Razzak | 1987 | Swedish reporter |
| 117 | Leo De Lyon | 1926 | Voice actor, actor |
| 118 | Leo du Pres | ||
| 119 | Leo Fernandes | 1991 | American Professional Soccer player |
| 120 | Leo Green | 1972 | British musician |
| 121 | Leo Törnqvist | 1911 | Finnish statistician |
| 122 | John De Leo | 1970 | Italian singer and composer |
| 123 | Leo Valdez | ||
| 124 | Leo Romero | 1986 | American skateboarder |
| 125 | Leo Dryden | 1863 | British singer |
| 126 | Leo Wallner | 1935 | Austrian economist |
| 127 | Leo Grillo | 1948 | American actor |
| 128 | Leo Driessen | 1955 | Dutch journalist |
| 129 | Leo Rudolf Raubal | 1906 | Adolf Hitlers nephew |
| 130 | Leo Löwenthal | 1900 | German sociologist |
| 131 | Leo Joseph Suenens | 1904 | Roman Catholic cardinal |
| 132 | Angelica Leo | 1983 | Italian actress |
| 133 | Leo Slezak | 1873 | Austrian opera tenor |
| 134 | Leo Steinberg | 1920 | American historian |
| 135 | Leo Bertos | 1981 | New Zealand professional footballer |
| 136 | Leo Hindery | 1947 | American businessman and writer |
| 137 | Leo Bersani | 1931 | Literary theorist and emeritus university professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| 138 | Leo Fortune-West | 1971 | English footballer and manager |
| 139 | Leo Percovich | Uruguayan footballer | |
| 140 | Leo Löwenstein | 1966 | German racing driver |
| 141 | Leo Stan Ekeh | 1956 | Nigerian businessman |
| 142 | Leo van der Goot | 1950 | Dutch singer and radio dj |
| 143 | Leo Melamed | 1932 | American businessman |
| 144 | Kid Leo | 1950 | American DJ and music industry executive |
| 145 | Leo Johnson | Twin Peaks character | |
| 146 | Leo Kahn | 1916 | Businessperson |
| 147 | Leo Mansell | 1985 | British racing driver |
| 148 | Paul Di Leo | 1965 | American musician |
| 149 | Leo von Jena | 1876 | German officer |
| 150 | Leo McKinstry | 1962 | British journalist and writer |
| 151 | Leonardo Leo | 1694 | Italian composer |
| 152 | Leo Fischer | 1981 | German journalist |
| 153 | Leo T. McCarthy | 1930 | American politician |
| 154 | Leo Allatius | 1586 | Greek scholar, theologian, and keeper of the Vatican library |
| 155 | Leo Nucci | 1942 | Opera singer |
| 156 | Leo Kinnunen | 1943 | Finnish racecar driver |
| 157 | Leo John Paul | Indian film editor | |
| 158 | Leo Felton | 1970 | American activist |
| 159 | Leo Meller | 1942 | |
| 160 | Leo Leandros | 1926 | Greek composer |
| 161 | Alan Leo | 1860 | Astrologer |
| 162 | Leo Panitch | 1945 | Canadian writer |
| 163 | Leo Gerard | 1947 | Canadian trade unionist |
| 164 | Leo Marx | 1919 | American academic |
| 165 | Leo Wiener | 1862 | American academic |
| 166 | Leo Gerstenzang | 1892 | American inventor |
| 167 | Leo White | 1882 | German-American actor |
| 168 | Leo V, King of Armenia | 1342 | King of Armenia |
| 169 | Leo Fernandez | 1976 | Irish snooker player |
| 170 | Leo Fong | 1928 | American actor |
| 171 | Leo Valentine | ||
| 172 | Leo Housakos | 1968 | Canadian politician |
| 173 | Leo Barry | 1977 | Australian rules footballer |
| 174 | Leo Cushley | 1961 | Archbishop-elect of St Andrews and Edinburgh |
| 175 | Leo Igwe | 1970 | Nigerian human rights activist |
| 176 | Leo Randolph | 1958 | Boxer |
| 177 | Leo Alexander | 1905 | Psychiatrist and neurologist |
| 178 | Fernando Di Leo | 1932 | Italian film director |
| 179 | Leo Perutz | 1882 | Austrian mathematician and writer |
| 180 | Leo Cárdenas | 1938 | Baseball player |
| 181 | Leo Bigger | 1968 | Swiss theologian |
| 182 | Leo Martin | 1942 | |
| 183 | Leo Allen | 1972 | American stand-up comedian and writer |
| 184 | Leo Fuchs | 1911 | Polish-born Jewish American actor and coupletist |
| 185 | Leo the Deacon | 0950 | Byzantine historian |
| 186 | Leo Villareal | 1967 | American artist |
| 187 | Leo Pari | 1978 | Italian singer-songwriter |
| 188 | Leo Davies | ||
| 189 | Maxim Leo | 1970 | German journalist and writer |
| 190 | Leo of Tripoli | 0900 | Privateer (0900-1000) |
| 191 | Leo Spitzer | 1887 | Austrian historian and theoretic of literature |
| 192 | Leo Wattimena | ||
| 193 | Leo Boivin | 1932 | Canadian ice hockey player |
| 194 | Ann-Kristin Leo | 1978 | German actress |
| 195 | Leo Reisman | 1897 | American musician |
| 196 | Leo F. Forbstein | 1892 | American conductor |
| 197 | Leo Sowerby | 1895 | American composer and church musician |
| 198 | Leo Colonna | 1957 | Italian actor |
| 199 | Edoardo Leo | 1972 | Italian actor and screenwriter |
| 200 | Leo Moran | 1964 | Irish musician |