Leander

From Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /liːˈændɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /liːˈændə/

Leander

1. (Greek mythology) The lover of Hero who swam every night across the Hellespont to meet her, and finally was drowned.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
     : Act IV, Scene I:

     Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night.

2. A male given name from Ancient Greek, also of a Spanish sixth century saint.
3. A city in Williamson County, Texas.

• Darleen, Darlene, Learned, learned, learnèd, learnéd, red lane, relaned

From Swedish Leander.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɑnder/, [ˈle̞ɑ̝nde̞r]
• Rhymes: -eɑnder
• Syllabification^(key): Le‧an‧der
• Hyphenation^(key): Le‧an‧der

Leander

1. a Finnish surname

• Leander is the 3096^th (tied with 7 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 250 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Leandrus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫeˈan.dɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [leˈan.der]

Leander m sg (genitive Leandrī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Leander (lover of Hero)

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er), singular only.

• “Leander”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Ancient Greek Λέανδρος (Léandros). First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1780.

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Leander c (genitive Leanders)

1. (Greek mythology) Leander
2. a male given name
   • 1898, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Selinda och Leander:

     Vi hänger du i tågen,
     där skeppet far på vågen,
     så dyster som i galgen, o
     Leander Liljekvist?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. a surname

[1] Statistics Sweden: 830 males with the given name Leander, and 1281 persons with the surname Leander, living in Sweden on December 31st, 2013. Accessed on 8 July 2014.

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