Is leon a name?

Question

Is Leon a name? If so how is it pronounced?

Also can anybody think of a name that rhymes with Leon pronounced Lee on

Answer 1

I copied 50 Leons from the 1880 USA census below for you. Yes, it is a name.

It is pronounced Lee on.

Rhymes with Beon, Ceon, Deon, Freon, Geon, Heon. Jeon, Keon, Meon, Neon, Peon, Queon . . .

There are no rules to naming. Look at "LaToya", which wasn't a name until the 1970's. Now it is popular. If people can pronounce it, they can saddle their kids with it.

Here are the old-fashioned Leons:

(Name, the phrase "1880 US Census", State of residence, relation to H of H, Gender, birth year, <birth state>)

1. Leon B. DERAMUS - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1874> AL



2. Leon WIGGINS - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1879> AL



3. Leon CROWELL - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1820> SC



4. Leon HENDRIX - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1860> AL



5. Leon D. CALHOUN - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1878> AL



6. Leon MCLUN - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1854> AL



7. Leon FLINN - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1876> AL



8. Leon MOORE - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1877> AL



9. Leon M. PANKEY - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1873> TN



10. Leon ROBISON - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1864> AL



11. Leon GRAY - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1879> AL



12. Leon REYNOLDS - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1862> OH



13. Leon Willie RODGERS - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Dau   Gender: Female   Birth: <1869> AL



14. Leon WIMBERLEY - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1871> AL



15. Leon NORRIS - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1868> BRAZIL



16. Leon E. TARTT - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

GSon   Gender: Male   Birth: <1877> AL



17. Leon NEWBRICK - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Other   Gender: Male   Birth: <1874> AL



18. Leon BARNETT - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1857> AL



19. Leon MONTGOMERY - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1824> SC



20. Leon P. BUNTIN - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1878> AL



21. Leon ULLMAN - 1880 United States Census / Alabama

Other   Gender: Male   Birth: <1851> GER



22. Leon FREIDENBURG - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Dau   Gender: Female   Birth: <1865> MO



23. Leon THOMPSON - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1874> AR



24. Leon KELLER - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1872> MO



25. Leon E. THOMPSON - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1864> AR



26. Leon DREYFUS - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1836> BAVORIA



27. Leon JOHNSON - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1878> AR



28. Leon CAVANESS - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1876> AR



29. Leon L. DARKS - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1876> AR



30. Leon TAYLOR - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Dau   Gender: Female   Birth: <1865> ARK



31. Leon KEOHOPE - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Dau   Gender: Female   Birth: <1869> TN



32. Leon B. MCDANIEL - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1866> AR



33. Leon SLY - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1878> AR



34. Leoni ASBERRY - 1880 United States Census / Arkansas

MotherL   Gender: Female   Birth: <1830> MO



35. Leon CONTRARAS - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1830> MEX



36. Leon LOPEZ - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1862> MEX



37. Leon GUREN - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1860> MEX



38. Leon CASTRO - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Dau   Gender: Female   Birth: <1876> SONORA MEX



39. Leon RUVIA - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Other   Gender: Male   Birth: <1852> NM



40. Leon WOOD - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1871> CA



41. Leon POLHESON - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Other   Gender: Male   Birth: <1843> FRANCE



42. Leon LUCERO - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1861> MEX



43. Leon CARASCO - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1845> MEX



44. Leon BAUGHART - 1880 United States Census / Arizona

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1872> AZ



45. Leon GARCEAU - 1880 United States Census / California

Other   Gender: Male   Birth: <1840> CAN



46. Leon LEFEVRE - 1880 United States Census / California

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1852> CA



47. Leon LETTERER - 1880 United States Census / California

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1828> BAVARIA



48. Leon E. LAWSON - 1880 United States Census / California

Son   Gender: Male   Birth: <1870> CA



49. Leon CARRIERE - 1880 United States Census / California

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1851> CAN



50. Leon ABRAMS - 1880 United States Census / California

Other   Gender: Male   Birth: <1857> CA

Answer 2

Leon is a name, pronounced Lee-on.

The only common name I can think of that rhymes with Leon is Deon/Dionne.  I've met a Teon, and I think there's a comic book character named Kreon...they all rhyme.

Answer 3

I should hope it is a name, or else my brother and my cousin have been lied to for the past 50+ years. LOL

www.behindthename.com says:

"LEON  

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, German, Polish, Slovene

Pronounced: lee-AHN (English), LE-awn (German, Polish)  

Form of LEO. A famous bearer was Leon Trotsky, a Russian Communist revolutionary. This is also the name of a region in Spain, though the etymology is unrelated. LEO--Late Latin name meaning "lion", ultimately from Greek .".

www.ancestry.com says:

"Leon

English, German, and Irish Gaelic form of Leo. This form is common as a Jewish name. The lion is an important symbol among Jews because of Jacob's dying pronouncement that “Judah is a lion's whelp” (Genesis 49: 9). "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_%28giv...

Leon is a name in several Germanic languages meaning "thunder," and is used as both a given name and a surname.

Famous holders of the name:

Leon Durham, baseball player

Leon Doucette, American born illustrator

Leon Edel, literary critic and Pulitzer Prize winning biographer

Leon Felipe Camino Galicia (1884 - 1968), Spanish poet

Leon Russell, (born 1942), singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist

Leon Spinks, boxer

Leon Trotsky, (Russian: Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist )

Leon Uris, (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003), American novelist

http://www.babyhold.com/list/Baby_Names/... :

  The meaning of the name Leon is: Lion. The lion is a figure in art and religious symbolism of many cultures; symbolizing kingliness and grandeur and courage.

(Name means the same thing in French, German, and Spanish).

As part of other names:

CLEON--The meaning of the name Cleon is: From the cliff.

CLEONIE--From the Greek Cleone: daughter of a river god; a

         girl's name

ELEONORE--girl's name; " Shining light."

LEONA--lion or lioness; girl's name

LEONARD--Lion or bold

Answer 4

haha yes. thats my uncles name.

why do you ask?

and its pronounced Lee-On.

Answer 5

Yes it is! It comes from the greek name Leonidas (a spartan king & warrior), it is pronounced as you said...

Answer 6

It is - and traces to France, Italy and Spain

See houseofnames.com

It is also a variant of Lyon (Fr)

Dionne would rhyme with Lee on