How Leonardo DiCaprio got his name

According to a family story Leonardo DiCaprio retold in an NPR interview, his parents were at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting when his pregnant mother felt the baby kick. His father reportedly took it as a sign and suggested the name Leonardo. DiCaprio himself qualified the story as something he heard from his father (“I believe,” “allegedly”), so it is a family anecdote, not an independently verified record of how the name was chosen.