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Leon

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form (French) of Leo [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) Short form of Germanic names beginning with Leon- (see LEW) [7] [1] [4]

3) Short form of Napoleon [1] [4]

Related Names

Leon ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
León ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Léon ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Lion ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Lionel, Leonas

For female forms see Leona

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Leoninpoika Finland
Leonsen Denmark Norway
Leonson Norway
Leonsson Faroe Islands Iceland Sweden

Female

Leonintytär Finland
Leonsdatter Denmark Norway
Leonsdotter Sweden
Leonsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Leon
Genitive: Leons
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Leon
Accusative: Leon
Dative: Leoni
Genitive: Leons
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Leon
Genitive: Leonin
Partitive: Leonia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Leon
Accusative: Leon
Dative: Leoni
Genitive: Leons
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Leon
Genitive: Leons
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Leon
Genitive: Leons

Name Day

Norway Norway

28 June

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

28 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Leon Bodd (30 July 1924 - 18 March 2014), Norwegian lawyer and politician

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[11]
7166 9799 12 28 7154 9771
Denmark Denmark[12]
1635
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 1635
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 1907
n.a.
 6
n.a.
 1901
Iceland Iceland[14]
61 114
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
3 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
4165
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 4165
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Leon (m) Sources: [11][12][16][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Leon (m) Sources: [17]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Leon (m)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  8. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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