Leland - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ 2 syll. le-lan(d), lel-a-nd ] The boy name Leland is pronounced as LIYLahND ^KEY. Leland is primarily used in English and its language of origin is Old English. Derived from the words 'laege' fallow ; 'land'. The first name is from an English surname, which was originally a byname for someone who lived near fallow land. The first name was adopted in the 19th century, especially in the USA, where it was also known from the humorist Charles Godfrey Leland (1824 ? 1903), who wrote the Hans Breitmann Ballads. A form of Leland is the English spelling variant Leeland.

Leland is a classic favorite. Currently it is still a rather popular baby boy name, but not as much as it was previously, and it is also regarded as trendy. At the modest height of its usage in 1921, 0.076% of baby boys were named Leland. It had a ranking of #171 then. The baby name has steeply slipped in popularity since then. In 2008, its usage was 0.033% and its ranking #407, having regained its popularity somewhat in the recent decade. Within all boy names in its family, Leland was the most commonly used.

Baby names that sound like Leland include the English Leeland, the English Lammond, the English Lamond, the English Lamont, the English Lamonte, the German and Spanish Lando, the English Lemond, the Russian Leonti, the name Leontiy, the English Lindy, the English Linwood, the English Lynwood, the Russian and German Leonid, the name Lonato, the name Lunt, and the Italian and Spanish Leonido.

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