Entry № 5855 · French origin

Leonie Leonie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ leh-OH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Lioness (modern German + French feminine of Leon)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "lioness (modern german + french feminine of leon)".

Leonie is the French/German feminine of Leon — from the Latin leo (lion). Léonie Saint-Cyr — French theatrical figure. Léonie Fuller Geisendorfer — modern figure. Léonie de Spens — French historical figure. Lori Singer's character Léonie — Footloose (1984) reference. The name is widely used across German, French, and Dutch speakers; in Germany it remains in the top-50 most-popular girls' names of the 2020s. Leonie Schweers — German actress.

Lioness (modern German + French feminine of Leon) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Léonie
Transliteration
Léonie
Pronunciation
/ ˌleɪ.oʊˈniː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Leonie stands.

Leonie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Leonies before her.

Real people
Leonie Adams
American US Poet Laureate 1948-49.
1899 – 1988
In fiction
Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Danish music honor.
1965

Names connected to Leonie.

The number behind Leonie.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Leonie reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.