Leandro

Leandro sweeps across the Mediterranean on Spanish and Portuguese tongues, the Romance form of the Greek Leandros, "lion man." The myth belongs to Leander, the young lover who swam the Hellespont each night to reach Hero, until a storm took him under. The romantic shadow still clings. Popular across Brazil, Argentina, and Portugal, the name has grown steadily in the United States as Latin American families share it with a new generation. Ranked 499, it pairs the courage of a hero with the warmth of three rolling syllables, equally suited to a painter, a striker, or a kid learning to ride a bike.