“people” + “man”
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A name. A world of connections.
A given name in Danish and Finnish
No sourced pronunciation yet
01 / Meaning & origin
Leandros is a masculine given name documented in Danish and Finnish.
Separate records with matching spellings: Léandros (st-7db72fd984)
No etymology is recorded in our sources for this spelling yet. The record exists because the name is documented in use; a meaning will be shown only once a cited source supports it.
02 / Across borders
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6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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Published statistics
United States, 2025: 6 boys (rank 10695).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
2000–2025 Spelling: Leandros
Recorded category boys
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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1 | 1,148 | observed |
| 2001 | 1 | 1,158 | observed |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | 1 | 1,241 | observed |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | 2 | 1,095 | observed |
| 2006 | 1 | 1,362 | observed |
| 2007 | 1 | 1,407 | observed |
| 2008 | 3 | 1,074 | observed |
| 2009 | 3 | 1,111 | observed |
| 2010 | 1 | 1,531 | observed |
| 2011 | 2 | 1,334 | observed |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | 2 | 1,445 | observed |
| 2015 | 2 | 1,480 | observed |
| 2016 | 4 | 1,163 | observed |
| 2017 | 3 | 1,360 | observed |
| 2018 | 4 | 1,217 | observed |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | 3 | 1,452 | observed |
| 2022 | 2 | 1,628 | observed |
| 2023 | 1 | 1,918 | observed |
| 2024 | 3 | 1,419 | observed |
| 2025 | 3 | 1,545 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Leandros” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
LEANDROS— “lion man”
Leandros, Leander, as we call it, means lion-man. Besides the unfortunate swimming lover whose exploit Byron imitated and Turner painted, it belonged to a sainted bishop of Seville, who, in 590, effected the transition of the Spanish Visigoths from Arianism to orthodoxy. Very likely his name was only a classicalizing of one of the many Gothic names from _leut_ (the people), which are often confused with those from the lion; but Leandro passed on as a Christian name in Spain…
Leandros, Leander, as we call it, means lion-man. Besides the unfortunate swimming lover whose exploit Byron imitated and Turner painted, it belonged to a sainted bishop of Seville, who, in 590, effected the transition of the Spanish Visigoths from Arianism to orthodoxy. Very likely his name was only a classicalizing of one of the many Gothic names from _leut_ (the people), which are often confused with those from the lion; but Leandro passed on as a Christian name in Spain and Italy.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part III, Chapter III (Names From Animals, Etc), Section I (The Lion) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
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