Updated May 24, 2023

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Lion-hearted

Boy name variations

Lennard

Lennard

+ 40% this year
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Lenard

Lenard

- 33% this year
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Lennart

Lennart

0 % this year
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Leonardo

Leonardo

+ 6% this year
Masculine
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Leonhard

Leonhard

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Leon

Leon

+ 7% this year
Masculine
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Leo

Leo

+ 6% this year
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Lennie

Lennie

+ 41% this year
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Lenny

Lenny

+ 6% this year
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Len

Len

+ 57% this year
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How Popular Is The Name Leonard

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French (Léonard) : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses.
  • Irish (Fermanagh) : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan.
  • Americanized form of Italian Leonardo or cognate forms in other European languages.
  • The French Léonard family were at Château Richer, Quebec, by 1698, having come from Maine, France.

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