Leopoldo

Where Leopoldo comes from

Leopoldo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1852
    Leopoldo Alas born
    Spanish author
  2. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,101 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1926
    Leopoldo Galtieri born
    military, dictator and de facto president of Argentina from 1981 until 1982
  4. 1929
    Peak, #781
    68 babies named Leopoldo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,354.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Leopoldo Galtieri · military, dictator and de facto president of Argentina from 1981 until 1982, 1926–2003
  • Leopoldo Alas · Spanish author, 1852–1901
  • Leopoldo Luque · Argentine footballer, 1949–2021
  • Leopoldo Lugones · Argentine poet, 1874–1938
  • Leopoldo Brenes · Nicaraguan Roman Catholic priest, born 1949

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.