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
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Proper noun
Leonard
- 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.
- 1844 Catherine Gore, The Birthright and Other Tales, Henry Colburn 1844, page 251:
- Lua error in Module:names at line 633: dot= and nodot= are no longer supported in Template:surname because a trailing period is no longer added by default; if you want it, add it explicitly after the template 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
Related terms
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Leonard is the 338th 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
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Anagrams
Old French
Proper noun
Leonard m (nominative singular Leonards)
- a male given name, Leonard.
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Leonard m (genitive singular Leonarda, nominative plural Leonardovia, declension pattern of chlap)
- a male given name.
Declension
Declension of Leonard
singular | plural | |
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nominative | Leonard | Leonardovia |
genitive | Leonarda | Leonardov |
dative | Leonardovi | Leonardom |
accusative | Leonarda | Leonardov |
locative | Leonardovi | Leonardoch |
instrumental | Leonardom | Leonardmi |
Derived terms
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
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