Definition of "Leonard"

Leonard

/ˈlɛnɚd/

proper noun
1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
  Quotations
  - - - save the delight of being called "Leo" by those whom the newspapers call "the leading fashionables", whereas, had he stuck to the city, he might still have been called only Leonard, like his father before him.
  1844, Catherine Gore, The Birthright and Other Tales, Henry Colburn, published 1844, page 251
  "You want names, I'll give you names. My name is Leonard Alfred Schneider. What was I doing when I took the name Lenny Bruce? I was moving towards the invisible middle.
  1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon&Schuster, published 1998, page 592
2. A surname transferred from the given name.
3. A surname from Irish.
4. A number of places in the United States:
  1. A village in Oakland County, Michigan.
  2. A minor city in Clearwater County, Minnesota.
  3. A village in Shelby County, Missouri.
  4. A minor city in Cass County, North Dakota.
  5. An unincorporated community in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
  6. A city in Fannin County, Texas.