Leontine

Where Leontine comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Leontine.

  • Vowel-ended
Leontine through the years
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #817 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #693
    11 babies named Leontine, its best rank.
  3. 1889
    Leontine Sagan born
    Austrian-Hungarian stage and film director
  4. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1959
    Leontine van der Lienden born
    cyclist
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Leontine Sagan · Austrian-Hungarian stage and film director, 1889–1974
  • Leontine van der Lienden · cyclist, born 1959
  • Leontine Ruiters · Dutch television presenter and actor, born 1967
  • Leontine T. Kelly · American United Methodist bishop, 1920–2012

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.