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Leopold

Boy name · 3 babies recorded · 1974–2025

Leopold: 3 babies born in Scotland since 1974, given to boys, peaking at 3 births in 2014.

Of Germanic origin, Leopold combines *leud* (people) and *bald* (bold), meaning “bold among the people.” The name was borne by two Belgian kings, including Leopold II, whose brutal colonial rule in the Congo left a deeply controversial legacy. In Scotland, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany—Queen Victoria’s haemophiliac son—lived at Holyrood Palace and gave his name to the Edinburgh district of Leopold Place. Several African cities, most famously Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville), were named after the Belgian monarchs. The musical world remembers Leopold Mozart, father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus. A continental variant, Leopoldo, appears in Spanish and Italian, while the feminine form Leopoldina is associated with Brazil’s nineteenth-century empress.