Given name & surname
Leão
Leão is a surname from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
In Portuguese use, Leão shares an earlier linguistic root with Leo. An origin associated with Leo is Late Latin.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Leon, from Latin Legiōnem; its root is Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Leão’s family of names
Leão shares a linguistic root with Leo. In Portuguese usage, Leão has a conventional equivalent in the French form Léon. Leão is a form of Leo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Leão has relatives in 3 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Leão
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