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LEON
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Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, German, Polish, Slovene
Pronounced: lee-AHN (English), LE-awn (German, Polish) [key]
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Form of LEO. In England during the Middle Ages this was a common name among Jews. A famous bearer was Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), a Russian Communist revolutionary. León is also the name of a province in Spain, though the etymology is unrelated. |
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