Save Gender Feminine Usage Dutch, Literature Pronounced Pron. lay-oh-NAWR, lay-oh-NO:R [key] Meaning & History Short form of Eleonoor, comparable to Leonora and Leonore. A bearer of this name is Leonoor Voskamp (b. 1983), a Dutch field hockey player. Also, Leonoor was the name of a poem by Dutch historian and poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581-1647).