Leon (first name)

Leon is a male name .

Origin and meaning

The first name comes from the Greek Λέων ( transliteration : Léon ) and means "lion".

The name is mainly common in Greece, Spain and France. In Germany it was rarely given until the beginning of the 1990s , but then quickly rose to become one of the most popular first names. From 1999 to 2010 Leon was consistently among the ten most frequently given first names for male infants. In 2001, 2006 and 2007 it was in first place in these statistics.

name day

February 20 : Leon Thaumaturgos , Bishop of Catania
July 20 : Léon-Ignace Mangin , French missionary in China

Name bearer

For the Byzantine emperors see Leo (first name) #Byzantine emperors

Ancient people

Leon (Sparta) (6th century BC), Spartan king
Leon (tyrant of Phleius) (6th century BC)
Leon (envoy of Sparta) in Athens, 420 BC. Chr.
Leon (general) (around 450 - 406 BC), an Athenian general in the Peloponnesian War
Leon (Athenian envoy) to Artaxerxes I, 367 BC. Chr.
Leon (mathematician) , Greek mathematician, around 400 BC. Chr.
Leon of Byzantion (4th century), envoy to Athens, friend of Plato
Leon von Pella , author of a work on the Egyptian gods
Leon (Ptolemaic civil servant) (3rd century BC)
Leon the mathematician , Byzantine scholar in the 9th century
Leon Diakonos , Byzantine historian

Armenian kings

Leon III (Armenia) , King of Lesser Armenia (1270–1289)
Leon IV (Armenia) (1289–1307), King of Lesser Armenia
Leon V (Armenia) (1309–1341), King of Armenia
Leon VI (Armenia) (1342–1393), last king of Lesser Armenia

People of the modern age

Leon Andreasen (* 1983), Danish football player
Leon Bailey (born 1997), Jamaican soccer player
Leon Balogun (* 1988), German-Nigerian soccer player
Léon Blum (1872–1950), French politician (socialist)
Leon Boden (1958–2020), German actor and voice actor
Léon Bourgeois (1851–1925), French statesman
Léon Breitling (1860–1914), Swiss watchmaker
Leon Clarke (born 1985), English football player
Leon Neil Cooper (* 1930), American physicist
Léon Degrelle (1906-1994), Belgian politician (Rexist)
Leon Draisaitl (* 1995), German ice hockey player
Léon Dufour (1780–1865), French doctor and naturalist
Leon Fesser (* 1994), German soccer player
Léon Foucault (1819–1868), French physicist
Léon Gambetta (1838–1882), French politician (Republican)
Leon Goretzka (* 1995), German soccer player
Leon Großvogel (1904–1943 / 44), Polish-Belgian Comintern functionary and resistance fighter
Leon Guwara (* 1996), German soccer player
Leon Haslam (* 1983), British motorcycle racer
Leon Heywood (1952-2014), Australian snooker player
Léon Huber (1936–2015), Swiss news anchor
Leon Jessen (* 1986), Danish football player
Leon Kamin (1927–2017), American psychologist
Leon Kirchner (1919–2009), American composer
Leon Milo (1956–2014), American composer, percussionist and sound artist
Leon Pabst (* 1991), German handball player
Leon Panetta (* 1938), American politician
Leon Payne (1917–1969), American country musician and songwriter
Leon Powe (* 1984), American basketball player
Leon Pownall (1943-2006), Canadian actor
Leon Redbone (1949–2019), Canadian singer and guitarist
Léon Rudnicki (1873–1958), French painter, illustrator and decorator
Leon Russell (1942-2016), American singer and songwriter
Leon Selph (1914–1999), American western swing musician
Leon Tsoukernik (* 1973), Czech entrepreneur, casino owner, poker player and art collector
Leon Ware (1940–2017), American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and producer
Léon Wieger (1856–1933), French theologian, physician, sinologist, author
Leon de Winter (* 1954), Dutch writer
Léon Wurmser (1931-2020), American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author