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LEON

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, German, Polish, Slovene

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

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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(see also LÉON)

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