Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Greek [1]
Scripts λέοντος (leontos), the genitive case of leon) meaning "lion" [2] . This was the name of various early saints and martyrs. It was also borne by a 7th-century Byzantine emperor.
Related Names
Rootleon
Feminine FormLeontia
Other Languages & CulturesLeo (Ancient Roman) Leo, Levon (Armenian) Lionel (Arthurian Cycle) Leo, Leon (Croatian) Leoš (Czech) Leo (Danish) Leo, Leon, Lio (Dutch) Leo, Leon, Lionel (English) Leo (Estonian) Leo (Finnish) Léo, Léon, Léonce, Léonel, Lionel (French) Levan (Georgian) Leo, Leon, Lio (German) Leon (Greek) Leó (Hungarian) Leó (Icelandic) Leone, Leonzio (Italian) Leons (Latvian) Leontes (Literature) Leonas (Lithuanian) Leo (Norwegian) Leon, Lew (Polish) Leão, Leonel (Portuguese) Leonti, Leontiy, Leonty, Lev, Lyov (Russian) Leon (Slovene) León, Leoncio, Leonel (Spanish) Leo (Swedish) Lev (Ukrainian) Leib (Yiddish)
Sources & References
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Λεόντιος.
- Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry le/wn, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dle%2Fwn.
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Entry updated May 26, 2026