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    1. wrylypolecat on

      I feel like Leo Messi might be a major contributor to the upward trend as well

    3. sergius64 on

      Yeah… it’s weird – I named my son Leo when he was born in 2020 thinking it’s all so original – and suddenly there are Leos everywhere.

    4. arrius01 on

      OP can you do one now for the name Adolf tracked over time and indicate the release of the movie Downfall in relation to the chart? Or Barbie, either one….

    8. WeidaLingxiu on

      We should make a law that EVERYONE is named Leo. Even the cats and dogs. Graves will have the names rubbed off and re-carved as Leo. First president of the USA? Leo Washington. Who sold bad copper? Leo Nasir. TV Chef? Leo Childs. The Pope? Leo.

    9. jpenczek on

      My brother and sister in law aren’t even Catholic and they’re considering Robert Francis for their kid.

      It’s not completely weird because both are family names.

    11. Signal-Reporter-1391 on

      Oh shit… i just realised that the 6 month old son of one of my collegues has been named Leo.
      Talk about prophetic.

      O.O

    12. FernPone on

      would be nice to see it being compared to other names, especially something common like john

    14. BuffyCaltrop on

      adjusted for population, wouldn’t it have been more popular in the 1920s?

    16. Gregolas789 on

      Thousands of kids are now subject to “Leo? Like the Pope??” jokes

    17. WickedPizt on

      Never forget the brilliant mind of Dr. Leo Marvin who helped so many people with his New York Times best seller “Baby Steps”.

    18. aduncan8434 on

      You know Leonardo from ninja Turtles added to that bump. It took a while for the kids who grew up on it to start having children 🙂

    21. ogiRous on

      I’ll bet there’s a far greater corelation with the Leos of today (last 20 years) is due to the Grand Children of the Leos born back around the 1920s.

    22. Creative_Victory_960 on

      Funnily you can also see around 2005 the appearance of Barcelona s Messi (the summer game vs Juventus in 2005 was when he really became known )

    28. Sunberries84 on

      Soundalike names tend to become popular at around the same time, so Theodore, Theo and Mateo have had a similar rise in popularity in the past 15ish years. Anecdotally, I have seen people on r/namenerds suggest Leo as a “less popular” alternative to Theo even though Leo is not that for behind Theodore in popularity.

    29. HughLauriePausini on

      Not the same Leo though. One is Leo as in Latin for lion, the other is Leo as in short for Leonardo

    30. figleaf29 on

      Wouldn’t one consider the surge of Leo in the 1920s as much greater popularity, as I imagine the number as a proportion of the overall population would have been significantly higher than the recent surge?

    32. Buy-theticket on

      Is this for the full name Leonard or just Leo or both? What about Lenny?

    34. Tim-Sylvester on

      What I wanna know is how I went most of my life only knowing 1-2 women named Hannah then I meet a half-dozen between 25-35 in the last year.

    35. fuckyou_m8 on

      Question. They are really named “Leo”? Because in my country, Leo is short for Leonardo. “Nobody” is just named Leo