Gender Masculine
Scripts Лев(Russian, Ukrainian)
Meaning & History
Means "lion" in Russian and Ukrainian, functioning as a vernacular form of Leo. This was the real Russian name of both author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940). This is also the name of the main character, Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, in the novel The Idiot (1868) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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Rootlĭvŭ
VariantLyov(Russian)
Other Languages & CulturesLeon, Leontios, Leontius(Ancient Greek) Leo, Levon(Armenian) Leo, Leon(Croatian) Leoš(Czech) Leo(Danish) Leo, Leon, Lio(Dutch) Leo, Leon(English) Leo(Estonian) Leo(Finnish) Léo, Léon, Léonce, Léonel, Lionel(French) Levan(Georgian) Leo, Leon, Lio(German) Leon(Greek) Leone, Leonzio(Italian) Leo(Late Roman) Leons(Latvian) Leontes(Literature) Leonas(Lithuanian) Leo(Norwegian) Leon, Lew(Polish) Leão(Portuguese) Leon(Slovene) León, Leoncio(Spanish) Leo(Swedish) Leib(Yiddish)
Surname DescendantLevchenko(Ukrainian)
Same SpellingLev 2
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