Baby name
REVIVING
🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 Leonard
/LEE · uh · nard/
Meaning
“Lion-bold”
Germanic 'Leonhard' from Latin 'Leo' (lion) and Germanic 'hard' (bold), lion-hearted.
Nicknames
leo · lenny · len
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Steady mid-century masculine presence; now reads vintage-intellectual due to Leonard Cohen, Einstein associations.
The cultural moment.
US peaked 1920s-1950s then declined; UK similar; Australia minimal; modest indie-creative revival 2015-2025.