Meaning Of The Name Leonard

Short form of the name Leonard. Leo, Leon, Len, Lenny, Lenya, Leonardito, Nardo, Nardito, Nio, Leosinho, Nardou, Leku, Dino, Dinetto, Nardino, Narduccio.

Synonyms for the name Leonard. Leonhard, Leonard, Leonardo, Lenard, Lennart, Lennar, Lennert, Lendert, Lenhart.

The origin of the name Leonard. The name Leonard is German, Catholic.

The name Leonard comes from an ancient Germanic name formed from two parts "leo" ("lion") and "hart, hard" ("firm, steadfast, brave"). Therefore, the name Leonard is translated as "brave lion." From the male name Leonard, the female names Leonard and Leonardin are formed.

There are semantic analogues of the name - the male names Leonid, Lev, Leon, Aslan, Arslan, Ruslan, Leis, Arik, Arie. Diminutive-affectionate terms Leo, Lenny and Dino are also independent names.

The name Leonard is not mentioned in the Orthodox calendar. In the Catholic tradition, Saint Leonard of Noblack is revered, who is considered the patron saint of blacksmiths, coppersmiths, locksmiths, miners, coopers and prisoners, as well as the heavenly protector of horses.

As a child, Leonard gives his parents a lot of anxiety with his restless and irritable disposition. He is stubborn and cocky. At school he often argues with teachers, shows inattention. At the same time, Leonard is very fond of reading, he literally "swallows" all the books that fall into his hands. In addition, Leonard is interested in sports, dance, drama circles. Most often, Leonard looks like his mother, and his character is from his father.

Leonard is a little lazy, he likes to sleep longer. Both in childhood and in adulthood, he is very phlegmatic. Most of all Leonard would like to lie somewhere under the apple tree, waiting for the end of the day. However, this man, although he does not crave a lot of work, will not sit idle. Leonard has an analytical mind. That is why he seeks to go into all the details of the case. Leonard is a professional in his field. Here he seeks to establish his point of view. In other people's affairs, the man prefers not to interfere.

Leonard's character changes little with age. A man born in winter has a complex character, has a desire for leadership in everything. When he graduates from university, he rarely works in his specialty. However, he becomes a good worker, willingly going on business trips. Leonard drives a car well, although he does not like to repair it. This man has the ability to adapt to circumstances, to be cunning. To a greater extent, this applies to Leonard, who was born in the fall. Most often, this man becomes a lawyer, doctor, musician or driver. Of course, the best talents of this man will be revealed if he devotes himself to art.

Ultimately, a man with this name has tremendous opportunities. He has an oratorical gift, he knows how to use a pen, is artistic and generous. More often than not, Leonard is in a great mood, he does not ask unnecessary questions and always remains an optimist. In addition, he is calm and peaceful, appreciates peace of mind. The excessive conflict of Leonard as a result negatively develops on his personal life, although love is the raison d'être of this man. Leonard dreams of loving and being loved. Women who are too cold or too sensual do not suit him at all.

Leonard is very moral, but not for lack of activity. For him, friendship is sacred. Leonard is very fond of beautiful women. "Summer" Leonard won't marry for a long time. In his youth, he walks on a grand scale, has a lot of beautiful girlfriends. In marriage, he is usually unlucky. In any case, he does not marry once. Leonard strives to be the leader in the family. For friends, he is a hospitable host. Leonard is very touching about children and animals.

Leonard is principled, which makes communication with him very difficult. He always wants to be the first and is not devoid of narcissism. Leonard communicates with people, only trying not to feel lonely and to have an extra opportunity to feel the admiration of others. At the same time, he cannot live without friends.

There is no aggressiveness at all in Leonard. They show little feelings, usually limited only to admiration. Behind the mask of equanimity is a talented personality with a developed imagination. Communication with Leonard is always smooth and calm. The interlocutor often begins to feel goodwill and admiration towards this man. Leonard readily admires in return.

Leonard's birthday

Leonard celebrates his name day on May 18, May 30, July 9, November 6, November 18, November 26.

Famous people named Leonard

• Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ((1452 - 1519) Italian artist (painter, sculptor, architect) and scientist (anatomist, naturalist), inventor, writer, one of the largest representatives of the art of the High Renaissance, a vivid example of the "universal man" (lat. homo universalis)
• Lenny Bruce ((1925 - 1966) real name - Leonard Alfred Schneider; American satirist, master of humorous improvisation, author of books, articles and records, who gained fame in 1950-1960. Courage of judgments, lifestyle, arrests and scandalous trials, circumstances death (which, according to the official version, was caused by a drug overdose) provided Lenny Bruce with cult posthumous popularity, not least among rock musicians, many of whom named him among the main influences.)
• Leonard Radolph "Lenny" Wilkens ((born 1937) American professional basketball player and coach)
• Lenny James ((born 1965) British actor and playwright, famous for the movie "Jackpot", the TV series "Jericho" and others)
• Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz ((born 1964) American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, his retro style brings together elements of such musical directions as rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelia, folk and ballads. In addition to being a vocalist, during recording in the studio he often plays all the parts of guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and percussion. For four years in a row he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocalist. Rock Vocal Performance ") from 1998 to 2002. In the rating of" VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock "he is in 93. Lenny Kravitz has sold about 20 million of his records all over the world. Participant of the international festival Maxidrom-2008.)
• Leonid "Lenny" Kreiselburg ((born 1975) famous American swimmer of Jewish origin, four-time Olympic champion, multiple champion and medalist of the World Championships, Pacific Championships, Maccabean Games. Specialized in backstroke. He played for the US national team.)
• Lenny McLean ((1949 - 1998) British actor. He starred in Lock, Stock, Two Barrels, The Fifth Element.)
• Leonard Skersky ((1866 - 1940) Major General of the Russian Army, Divisional General of the Polish Army)
• C. J. Leonard Peterson ((1885 - 1956) Swedish gymnast, champion of the 1908 Summer Olympics)
• Leonard Kruse ((1899 - 1966) Soviet pilot, 1st class pilot, Estonian by nationality. After the Civil War, he was educated as a pilot. Kruse's place of work was the East Siberian coast of the Soviet Union, where he improved methods of ice reconnaissance. In autumn 1942 Leonard Gustavovich repeatedly landed on PS-84 passenger aircraft equipped with wheeled landing gear on ice floes off the coast of Chukotka and Yakutia. As a result, Kruse practically substantiated his own methods of using wheeled aircraft in ice conditions and brought reindeer to Wrangel Island in the East Siberian Sea. restoring their population. After the Great Patriotic War L. Kruse in the rank of lieutenant colonel, was the head of the repair work to restore captured aircraft in Leipzig. After that, he was sent to Moscow for the position of flight director, then again worked in the Arctic, most of the time he was in Amderma. In the 1950s, he was the flight director at Amderma airport. By the end of his thirty-year flying career L. Kruse covered 3,600,000 km by air. Awards: Cross of St. George, III degree; St. George Cross, IV degree; the title of Hero of the Soviet Union; two Orders of Lenin; Order of the Red Star; medals.)
• Leonard Ternovsky ((1933 - 2006) doctor, writer, member of the human rights movement in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group; awarded the Medal of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation "Hurry to do good")
• Leonard Yachevsky ((1858 - 1916) Russian geologist and mining engineer. With the beginning of the construction of the Siberian railway, Yachevsky became a member of the geological party, which carried out research along the Central Siberian and Circum-Baikal sections of the Siberian Railway. In 1896 and 1897 he discovered vast primary deposits of jade in the basin of the Onota and Ureka rivers in the Irkutsk province. Later Yachevsky was a professor of mineralogy at the Yekaterinoslav Higher Mining School. Published works: "Geological sketch of gold fields near the confluence of the Onon and Ingoda rivers"; "Aliberovskoe graphite deposit"; "Geothermal observations in Siberia" and others.)
• Leonard Susskind ((born 1940) American theoretical physicist, one of the founders of string theory, now teaching at Stanford University)
• Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett ((1902 - 1985) English statistician. Pupil of K. Pearson and R. E. Fisher. For about 40 years from 1925 to 1965 he was an employee, then assistant director of the Research Institute in Manchester. Since 1965 consultant at UNIDO President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1965-1966 Along with R. E. Fischer and E. Yu. Gumbel, he is considered a pioneer in the development of the theory of extreme values, the Fisher-Tippet distribution and the Fisher-Tippet-Gnedenko theorem are associated with his name He also publishes tables of random numbers for the first time.)
• Leonard Euler ((1707 - 1783) Swiss, German and Russian mathematician who made a significant contribution to the development of mathematics, as well as mechanics, physics, astronomy and a number of applied sciences. Euler is the author of more than 800 works on mathematical analysis, differential geometry, number theory, approximate calculations, celestial mechanics, mathematical physics, optics, ballistics, shipbuilding, music theory, etc. He spent almost half of his life in Russia, where he made a significant contribution to the formation of Russian science. In 1726 he was invited to work in St. Petersburg, where he moved a year later. From 1731 to 1741, and also from 1766 he was an academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (in 1741-1766 he worked in Berlin, while remaining at the same time an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy). He knew Russian well and published some of his works (especially textbooks) in Russian. The first Russian academic mathematicians (S. K. Kotelnikov) and astronomers (S. Ya. Rumovsky) were students of Euler.)
• Leo Esakia ((1890 - 1969) Georgian actor and film director)
• Leonart Fuchs, Leonhart Fuchs, Leonard Fuchs ((1501 - 1566) German scientist, botanist and physician, one of the "fathers" of modern botany)
• Leonard Peltier ((born 1944) American Indian activist, Ojibwe of Turtle Mountain and Sioux of Spirit Lake (formerly Devils Lake) in North Dakota, convicted of the 1975 murder of two FBI agents)
• Leonard Joseph Leon Faucher ((1803 - 1854) French politician and statesman of Jewish origin)
• Leonard Norman Cohen ((born 1934) Canadian poet, writer, singer and songwriter. The first collection of poetry was published in 1956, the first novel in 1963. In the early years, Cohen's songs were based on folk music, in the 1970s to pop and cabaret. Since the 1980s, Cohen has been singing in a low voice to the accompaniment of music with synthesizers and female backing vocals. His songs are often emotionally heavy and with complex lyrics. Topics that Cohen sings about are religion, loneliness, sexuality, complex relationships between people. Cohen's songs and poetry have had a great influence on many songwriters and musicians. Leonard Cohen is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame; since April 19, 1991 he is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and since October 10, 2002 - a Companion Order of Canada, which is the highest honor for a citizen of Canada. There are many cover versions of his songs.)
• Leonard Ditko ((1921 - 2006) choirmaster, public figure, writer, theater expert. Honored Artist of Russia (1972), Honored Art Worker of the All-Russian Musical Union (2001). Art Advisor in Mongolia (since 1957), member of the Writers' Union "Military Commonwealth "; Member of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia; Vice-President of the Voronezh Regional Association of Musicians. Director of more than 100 opera and operetta performances. Since 1960 he has been the organizer and for many years the artistic director of the choir group of the Voronezh Musical Theater, which since 1968 has been renamed the Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theater.)
• Leonard Max Adleman (Eidlman) ((born 1945) American theoretical computer scientist, professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known as the co-author of the RSA encryption system (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman, 1977) and DNA Computing. RSA is widely used in computer security applications, including the HTTPS protocol.)
• Leonard Jimmy Savage ((1917 - 1971) American mathematician and statistician. Nobel laureate Milton Friedman described him as "one of the few that I have met and would no doubt call a genius.")
• Leonard Perelomov ((born 1928) Russian Sinologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Specialist in the Study of China's Confucian Heritage, President of the Russian Confucian Foundation, President of the Moscow Wushu Federation, President of the Moscow House of Confucius, Member of the Board of the International Confucian Association, author of a large number of monographs and translations of Chinese classics. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after Academician S. F. Oldenburg. In the scientific and journalistic press of the PRC and Taiwan, LS Perelomov is called "Moscow Confucius."
• Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio ((born 1974) American actor. Three-time Academy Award nominee. He is best known for his roles in films such as "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", "Romeo + Juliet", "Titanic", "Beach "," Gangs of New York "," Catch Me If You Can "," Aviator "," The Departed "," Isle of the Damned "and" Inception ".)
• Leonardo de Deus Santos or simply Dede ((born 1978) Brazilian footballer, defender. Player of the Turkish club "Eskisehirspor." The Dede brothers are also football players.)
• Leonardo Bruni from Arezzo, why he called himself Aretino ((1370/1374 - 1444) Italian humanist, writer and historian, one of the most famous scholars who adorned the Italian Renaissance century. in his translations of Aristotle, Demosthenes, Plutarch, etc. The well-known story "De amore Guiscardi et Sigismundae filiae Tancredi" was published several times and repeatedly translated into Italian and French. His work "On the correct translation" is one of the first attempts to create a theory of translation The basis of the scientist's worldview is the belief in the unlimited creative possibilities of man and his eternal striving for good. Bruni also preached the idea of the all-round development of the personality and condemned asceticism.)
• Leonardo Noeren Franco ((born 1977) Argentine footballer, goalkeeper)
• His Eminence Cardinal Leonardo Sandri ((born 1943) Cardinal Argentine. Deputy Secretary of State for General Affairs of the Vatican from September 16, 2000 to June 9, 2007. Prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches from June 9, 2007. Cardinal Deacon with deacon Ss. Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari from 24 November 2007.)
• Leonardo of Pisa ((c. 1170 - c. 1250) was the first major mathematician of medieval Europe. He is best known by the nickname Fibonacci; there are different versions of the origin of this pseudonym. According to one of them, his father Guillermo had the nickname Bonacci ("Well-intentioned"), and Leonardo himself was nicknamed filius Bonacci (“son of the Well-intentioned.”) According to another, Fibonacci comes from the phrase Figlio Buono Nato Ci, which in Italian means “a good son was born.” Fibonacci's father often visited Algeria for business affairs, and Leonardo studied there mathematics from Arab teachers. Later he visited Egypt, Syria, Byzantium, Sicily. Leonardo studied the works of mathematicians of the countries of Islam (such as al-Khorezmi and Abu Kamil), and from Arabic translations he also got acquainted with the achievements of ancient and Indian mathematicians. On the basis of the knowledge he mastered, Fibonacci wrote a number of mathematical treatises, which are an outstanding phenomenon of medieval Western European science. In the 19th century, a monument to the scientist was erected in Pisa.)
• Leonardo Pieraccioni ((born 1965) Italian actor, director, screenwriter)
• Leonardo Doudreville ((1885 - 1975) Italian artist who worked in the futuristic and Novecento styles)
• Leonardo di Capua ((1617 - 1695) Italian physician and philosopher. He founded the Academia degli investigatori in Naples, a supporter of Paracelsus, sharply attacked modern medicine.)
• Leonard Varfolomeev ((1936 - 2010) Russian actor, artist of the Chelyabinsk State Academic Drama Theater named after Naum Orlov, People's Artist of Russia)
• Leonard Godlevsky ((1832 -?) Lieutenant General. Participant of the Crimean War of 1853-1856, the Polish campaign of 1863-1864, the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878)
• Leonard Lavlinsky ((1930 - 2005) Russian writer, poet and critic)
• Leonardo "Leu" Enrique Veloso ((born 1987) Brazilian footballer, defender)
• Leonardo Lourenzo Bastos, better known as Leo ((born 1975) Brazilian footballer, left back)
• Leonardus Benyamin Murdani, also known as Benny Murdani ((born 1932) Indonesian military and political leader, General Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Indonesia (1983-1988), Minister of Defense of Indonesia (1988-1993).)
• Leonard Victor Joseph Charnay ((1797 - 1869) French admiral, commander-in-chief of the French forces in Cochin Chin)
• Lennart Torstensson ((1603 - 1651) Swedish commander, participant in the Thirty Years War)
• Lennart Budström ((born 1928) Swedish Social Democratic politician. He held ministerial posts in the governments of Palme and Karlsson from 1982-1989)
• Lennart Johansson ((born 1929) Swedish football functionary, former president of UEFA (1990-2007), record holder for the longest term in office. On January 26, 2007, he ceded this position by vote to Michel Platini. Vice President of FIFA, in 1998 was a candidate for the presidency, but lost to Sepp Blatter. In 1999 he became a Knight of the Order of Friendship.)
• Lennart Tee ((born 1992) Danish-German footballer, striker)
• Lennart Meri ((1929 - 2006) Estonian writer and statesman, President of Estonia from 1992-2001. Meri was the leader of the Estonian independence movement.)
• Lennart Axel Edward Carleson ((born 1928) Swedish mathematician, specialist in modern mathematical analysis and function theory. Professor at Uppsala University, Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), University of California (USA). Foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of Mathematics since 1982 year, since 1991 - a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Awarded the MV Lomonosov Grand Gold Medal (2002) Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Proved (1966) Luzin's famous assumption (1915) about the convergence almost everywhere of the Fourier series of functions from L_2.)
• Lennart Karlström (Swedish orienteer, relay winner of the 1972 Orienteering World Championship.)
• Lennart Samuelson ((born 1948) Swedish scientist, Ph. D. (1996), historian of economics, professor (2001). Member of the American Society for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (1985).)
• Lennart Torvald Strömberg ((1931 - 2010) Finnish rower (canoeist), Olympic champion and two-time world champion)