MEANING & HISTORY
What does Leandro mean?
Leandro is the Spanish and Italian form of Leander. The scholarly medieval-name dictionary explains the Greek components as leon, lion, and aner, man, and documents the Spanish spelling Leandro in a sixteenth-century record.
This is an actual historical formation, not a free combination invented for the website. Leander has both classical and Christian naming history, so the name alone cannot identify which reference a family intended. Leandro, Leander and Leonardo are not interchangeable: Leonardo belongs to a different compound family.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
SpanishEtymology & source
a male given name
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People with the name Leandro
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Leandro Locsin
Filipino architect (1928–1994)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Leandro Mendoza
Filipino politician (1946-2013)
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
9
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Leandro Mendoza, Leandro Locsin
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Leandro in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Leandro
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Alejandro♂Spanish form of Alexander: defending men
- Leander·Lion and man in the Greek Leandros tradition
- Alessandro♂Italian Alexander: defending men
- Lenore♀Shortened form of Eleanor
- Leonard♂Lion and boldness, in the usual Germanic analysis
- Leonardo♂Brave lion; form of Leonard
- Leoncio♂Lion; through Latin Leontius
- Leonor♀Iberian form of Eleanor, from Alienor
What rhymes with Leandro?
Matches share a dictionary-supplied rhyme key in the stated language. Check the recorded reading; another language or accent can change the rhyme.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Recorded combinations with Leandro
1 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
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Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q5972176 — Leandro (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Leandro Mendoza (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q5972176 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Leandro Locsin (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q5972176 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Leandro (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources — Leander (opens in a new tab)
Greek leon lion + aner man; attested Spanish Leandro form.