Name: Leander
Gender: Male
Usage: Leander is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Leander are in general originating from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Leander across the world, see Leandros.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Leander is: Lion man, Man of lions.
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Numerology of the first name Leander: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Leander is ranked on the 11,317th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 21700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Leander has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Leander for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Leander is 27 February.
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History and Origin
Leander is a given name. The most famous bearer of the name is mythological, from the story of Hero and Leander.
Latin form of the Greek name Leandros, which is composed of the elements leön lion + anēr (genitive andros) man. In Greek legend, Leander is the name of a hero who swam across the Hellespont every night to visit his beloved, Hero, and back again in the morning, but was eventually drowned during a violent storm. In Christian times, the name was borne by a 6th-century saint, the brother of Sts Fulgentius, Isidore, and Florentina. He was a leading ecclesiastical figure of his day, a friend of Gregory the Great, and became archbishop of Seville. In modern times, the name has occasionally been used as an elaboration of Lee (as a male name). In addition, Dunkling has recorded at least one instance of its use as a female name.
Cognates: French: Léandre. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Leandro.
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