Leonie
Leonie is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Leonie (or Leoni or Leony) is a feminine form of Leon and therefore refers to the lion . Leonie is also known as the short form of Eleonore .
frequency
The name Leonie first appeared in the first name hit parades in Germany in the early 1980s. From 2001 to 2010 Leonie was always among the ten most frequently given first names for female babies in Germany. In 2005 he was number one in these statistics. Between 2012 and 2016, Leonie was on average number 18 in the list of the most popular girl names; thus about 0.6% of all girls born in Germany at that time were named Leonie. In Austria, 2.86% of female babies were called this way in 2005, with Leonie replacing the name Anna from the first place of the most popular first names. Also in 2008 Leonie was the most frequently given female first name in Austria with 2.67%. In German-speaking Switzerland, too, Leonie has been among the ten most popular first names for several years (4th place in 2008 and 2009).
name day
- January 10th , Leonie Aviat
- November 6th , Leonhard of Limoges
- November 10th , Leo the Great
- June 12 , Leo III.
Name bearers
First name
- Leonie Aviat (1844–1914), religious sister, founded the Oblates of St. with Louis Brisson. Francis de Sales
- Leonie Benesch (* 1991), German actress
- Leonie Brandis (* 1977), German actress
- Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer (* 1976), German screenwriter and lawyer
- Léonie Ferran (* 1990), French ski mountaineer
- Léonie Geisendorf (1914–2016), Swedish architect
- Leonie Maier (* 1992), German athlete
- Leonie Mann (1916–1986), German author and translator from the Mann family of writers
- Leonie Meyerhof (1858 / 1860–1933), German writer and women's rights activist
- Leonie Ossowski (1925–2019), German writer
- Leonie von Rüxleben (1920–2005), German art collector
- Leonie Rysanek (1926–1998), Austrian opera singer
- Leonie Adele Spitzer (1891–1940), Austrian writer and teacher
- Leonie Stein (* 1948), Swiss theater director and university lecturer
- Leonie Taliansky (1875–1917), Austrian theater and silent film actress
- Leonie Tepe (* 1995), German actress
- Léonie Thelen (* 1959), German actress
- Leonie Wild (1908–2005), German entrepreneur and patron
- Leonie Antonia Beck (* 1997), German swimmer
stage name
- Leonie Saint (* 1986), German erotic actress
- Leonie Swann (* 1975), German crime writer
additional
- Leonie iron ore mine
- Léonie Island
- Léonie Islands , group of small islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonie, Knud Bielefeld, Popular-Vornamen.de
- ↑ Statistics 2005, Knud Bielefeld, Popular-Vornamen.de
- ↑ Leonie - first name for girls, first name.blog. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
- ↑ First names of newborns with Austrian citizenship according to decreasing frequency since 1984 - Austria, STATISTIK AUSTRIA ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Leonie, 2010 - 9th place, 2009 - 4th place, 2008 - 4th place, Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel 2011 ( Memento of the original from 4th August 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
