Leonard

See also: Léonard

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French Leonard, name of a 6th century Frankish saint, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German leo (“lion”) and hart (“hard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛnɚd/

Proper noun

Leonard

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1844 Catherine Gore, The Birthright and Other Tales, Henry Colburn 1844, page 251:

     - - - save the delight of being called "Leo" by those whom the newspapers call "the leading fashionables", whereas, had he stuck to the city, he might still have been called only Leonard, like his father before him.

   • 1997 Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon&Schuster 1998, →ISBN, page 592:

     "You want names, I'll give you names. My name is Leonard Alfred Schneider. What was I doing when I took the name Lenny Bruce? I was moving towards the invisible middle.

2. derived from the given name. Also used as an anglicisation of the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish Ó Leannáin (Lennon).

Usage notes

• The given name has been in quiet continuous use since the Middle Ages. A popularity peak occurred during the first half of the 20th century.

Derived terms

• Leonardtown
• St Leonards

Related terms

• (diminutives) Len, Lenny, Leo, Leon

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Leonard is the 338^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 91.475 individuals. Lange is most common among White (80.38%) and Black (14.07%) individuals.

Translations

male given name

• Albanian: Leonard
• Bengali: লিওনার্ড (liōnarḍo)
• Danish: Lennart
• Esperanto: Leonardo
• Estonian: Lennart
• Finnish: Lenni (fi)
• French: Léonard (fr)
• Friulian: Lenart
• Galician: Leonardo (gl)
• German: Leonhard
• Greek: Λεωνάρδος (el) m (Leonárdos), Λεονάρδος (el) m (Leonárdos)
• Hebrew: לֵאוֹנַרְדְּ (léonard)
• Hungarian: Lénárd (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: Leonardo (it)
• Latin: Leonardus
• Latvian: Leonards m
• Maltese: Anard, Leonardu, Nardu
• Maori: Rēnata
• Occitan: Launart m, Liunard m
• Picard: Lèyonârd
• Polish: Leonard (pl)
• Portuguese: Leonardo (pt)
• Russian: Леона́рд (ru) m (Leonárd)
• Spanish: Leonardo (es)
• Swedish: Lennart (sv)

Anagrams

• endoral, ladrone

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Old French

Proper noun

Leonard m (nominative singular Leonards)

1. a male given name, Leonard.

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɔnard/

Proper noun

Leonard m (genitive singular Leonarda, nominative plural Leonardovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name.

Declension

Declension of Leonard

	singular	plural
nominative	Leonard	Leonardovia
genitive	Leonarda	Leonardov
dative	Leonardovi	Leonardom
accusative	Leonarda	Leonardov
locative	Leonardovi	Leonardoch
instrumental	Leonardom	Leonardmi

Derived terms

• Leonardko
• Leo
• Leoš

Further reading

• “Leonard”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024