Leontii
A Greek name meaning "lion", carried in Poland mostly by Russian and Ukrainian families. Fewer than a hundred men hold it here, so most Poles will never meet one.
Leontii Pronunciation
Leontii is pronounced le-ONT-yee (/lɛˈɔntji/).
What Leontii means
Where Leontii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Leontii comes from Greek. The root is "leon," lion, the same animal behind Leon and Leo. In its Greek form Leontios the name belonged to soldiers and to saints of the Eastern Church, among them a martyr venerated in Byzantium. From that world it moved north, settling into Russian and Ukrainian use, where Leontii found a long home.
For the people who carried it, the meaning stayed close to the surface. In Polish it is simply "lew." The lion was the whole point.
Polish records hold the name through its relatives. The variant Leoncjusz keeps a more Latin spelling of the same lion. The feminine Leontyna carries the sense across to girls without losing the animal underneath.
Picture a class register at a Polish school, the teacher reading down the list and stopping a moment on Leontii among the Kacpers. It reads as older than the boys around it, and it reads as foreign, and that foreignness is Greek by way of the East. Whatever else shifts around it, the root holds: leon, lew, lion.
How many people are named Leontii
1 in 263533 men in Poland is named Leontii. 81 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3939 among male names.