Leona purrs. A feminine form of Leon, drawn from the Latin leo meaning "lion," it arrived in English nurseries in the nineteenth century with the soft authority of a stained-glass window. The name carried silent-film star Leona Anderson and, more recently, the British singer Leona Lewis, whose 2006 debut pulled the name back into the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. There's Art Deco gold in its three syllables, something vaguely Parisian, vaguely operatic. Now ranked 488, Leona offers a vintage alternative to Leah or Nora with a little more fur and a little more roar.
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1880 to today
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- Scarlet
- Kora
- Mariam
- Paris
- Lyra
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- Mariam
- Paris
- Lyra
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