Latin origin
Source-reportedFrom Latin Leō.
Sources for this account (1)
- Wiktionary: LeãoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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A name. A world of connections.
Latin roots
[leˈɐ̃ʊ̯̃] · Portuguese (Brazil)
01 / Meaning & origin
Leão is a masculine given name documented in Portuguese. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Leō.
Separate records with matching spellings: Leao (Q128693022), Leâo (st-9c2c2f3cc1), Leäo (st-89eae3cc55), Léao (st-1ccb999c18)
From Latin Leō.
02 / Across borders
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Official statistics
Switzerland, 2025: 2 boys (rank 1916).
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03 / By the numbers
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2000–2025 Spelling: Leão
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 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,830 | observed |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | 1 | 1,890 | observed |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | 2 | 1,916 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Leão” 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.
Leăo— “lion”
_Leăo_, _m._ _Port._ Gr. lion, 77
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · 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
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.