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Леонид
“lion”
Леонид (Leoníd) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Russian and Macedonian.
Macedonian and RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Leonid.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Леонид goes back to Ancient Greek Λεωνίδας, meaning “lion.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Леонид’s family of names
In Russian usage, Леонид has a diminutive in Лёня. In Russian usage, Леонид has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Leonid. In Macedonian usage, Леонид can be written in the Roman alphabet as Leonid.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Леонид has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Леонид comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Leonidasequivalent
- Леанідequivalent
- Léonideequivalent
- Leonīdsequivalent
- Леонідequivalent
- LéonidasFrench
- LéonidFrench
- Leanidequivalent
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People named Леонид
- Leonid BrezhnevGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)
- Leonid KantorovichRussian mathematician (1912-1986)
- Leonid AndreyevRussian playwright, author and poet (1871–1919)
- Leonid GaidaiSoviet film director (1923-1993)
- Leonid GovorovSoviet marshal (1897–1955)
- Leonid LeonovRussian writer (1899–1994)
- Leonid PasechnikRussian politician and head of the Lugansk People's Republicborn 1970
- Leonid KuravlyovSoviet and Russian actor (1936–2022)
- Leonid SlutskyRussian football coach (born 1971)
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