Leopold is a male first name.
Leopold is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1552 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,551 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Leopold.
Leopold is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1981, where the name Leopold was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Leopold and were born in the USA in 1981, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Leopold even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1895, it ranked on position 517 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Leopold was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Leopold has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 100 times and thus landed on position 1,543 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular male first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 100 boys with the name Leopold, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The odds of having a man or boy named Leopold in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Leopold is registered in 19 states, among which are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Leopold live in New York, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 29,347 men and boys in New York for their name before you meet one who answers with Leopold.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Leopold has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Leopold and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Leopold, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Orange
Pig
Orange
Lion
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Leopold
Leopold
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
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O
L
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Leopold sounds like this:
