Leanid
From the Greek for "son of a lion". Fewer than 800 men in Poland carry it and none were registered last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Leanid Pronunciation
Leanid is pronounced le-AH-nyeet (/lɛˈaɲit/).
What Leanid means
Where Leanid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Leanid comes from Greek. Behind it stands Leonidas, built from leon, the word for lion, and a suffix that reads as descent or likeness. The short meaning that carried into Polish is plain: son of a lion, syn lwa.
The form Leanid is the Belarusian shape of a name that Russians write as Leonid and that Poles more often meet as Leonidas or Leon. It crosses the eastern border with its own spelling intact. On an official form at the urząd, those four vowels in a row sit oddly beside Polish orthography, and that strangeness does real work. The name announces where it has been.
The lion in the root is not decoration. Leonidas of Sparta held the pass at Thermopylae in 480 BC, and the name has meant courage under pressure since. A boy called Leanid inherits that association whether or not he ever hears the story. Say the meaning once more and it settles: syn lwa, son of a lion.
How many people are named Leanid
1 in 28124 men in Poland is named Leanid. 759 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1078 among male names.