Given name · Ukrainian
Леонід
Леонід (Leoníd) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Ukrainian.
UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Leonìd.
Meaning & origin
Леонід’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Леонід has a transliteration in Leonìd. In Ukrainian usage, Леонід can be written in the Roman alphabet as Leoníd.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Леонід
- Leonid KuchmaUkrainian businessman and politician, second President of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005born 1938
- Leonid KravchukUkrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine1934–2022
- Leonid KadenyukUkrainian cosmonaut (1951-2018)
- Leonid BykovUkrainian soviet actor, film director and screenwriter (1928-1979)
- Leonid BuryakUkrainian footballerborn 1953
- Leonid RadvinskyUkrainian-American businessman (1982–2026)
- Leonid OsykaSoviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter (1940-2001)
- Leonid ChernovetskyiUkrainian politicianborn 1951
- Leonid LytvynenkoUkrainian-Soviet decathleteborn 1949
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