Leonie (given name)

Leonie is a female first name.

Origin and Meaning

Leonie (or Leoni or Leony ) is a feminine form of Leon and therefore relates to the lions. Leonie is also known as a short form of Eleanor.

Frequency

The name Leonie appeared in Germany in the early 1980s the first time in the name charts. From 2001 to 2010 Leonie was always in the top ten most commonly assigned name for female infants in Germany. In 2005 he was included in these statistics are the number 1 in Austria 2.86 % of female babies were so named in 2005, thus the name Anna Leonie displaced from the first place of the most popular first name. In 2008, Leonie was 2.67 % of the most awarded female first name in Austria. In German-speaking Switzerland Leonie has been for several years at the ten most popular first names (2008 and 2009 4th place).

Name-day

Name winners

First name

  • Leonie Aviat (1844-1914), sister, co-founded the Oblate Sisters of St. Louis Brisson. Francis de Sales
  • Leonie Benesch (* 1991), German actress
  • Leonie Brandis ( b. 1977 ), German actress
  • Léonie -Claire Breinersdorfer (* 1976), German writer and lawyer
  • Léonie Ferran (* 1990), French ski mountaineer
  • Léonie Geisendorf (* 1914), Swedish architect
  • Leonie Mann (1916-1986), German writer and translator from the literati family man
  • Leonie Meyerhof (1858/1860-1933), German writer and women's rights activist
  • Leonie Ossowski (* 1925), German writer
  • Leonie of Rüxleben (1920-2005), German art collector
  • Leonie Rysanek (1926-1998), Austrian soprano
  • Leonie Stein ( born 1948 ), Swiss theater director and university teacher
  • 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 philanthropist

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