Given name & surname
Leonas
Leonas is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Leonas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Leonas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Leonas has a conventional equivalent in the English form Leo. In Lithuanian usage, Leonas has a conventional equivalent in the French form Léon. In Lithuanian usage, Leonas was borrowed from the Ancient Greek form Λέων.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Leonas
- Leonas BistrasLithuanian politician (1890-1971)
- Leonas JuozapaitisLithuanian association football player (1901-1980)
- Leonas BaltrūnasLithuanian basketball player and coach (1914–1993)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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