Leland
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| Gender: | male | |
| Pronunciation: | lee-lund, LEE-land | |
| Meaning: | dweller of a clearing, unseeded or fallow land, meadowland | |
| Related Names: | Le, Leeland, Leighland, Leyland |
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[edit] ORIGIN AND HISTORY
The name Leland originates as an Old English surname via a location name denoting someone who lived in a clearing or on unseeded or fallow land. It derives as a combination of “leah” meaning “wood,” “clearing” or “meadow” and “land.” Additionally, Leland has roots in “laege” meaning “fallow.”
[edit] POPULARITY
According to the 1990 United States Census [1], Leland ranked as the 403rd most popular male first name and the 7,671st most popular last name. In the United States, the name ranked in the Top 1,000 most popular boys' names every decade from the 1880s through the 1990s, although it did not rank in the Top 1,000 most popular boys' names from 1999 through 2004.
According to the Social Security Administration [2], in the 21st century, the name ranked in the Top 1,000 most popular boys' names every year from 2005 (608th) through 2007 (316th).
United States Popularity of the boy's name Leland in the 21st Century:
- Year: 2007 Rank:316th
- Year: 2006 Rank:343rd
- Year: 2005 Rank:608th
[edit] FACTS
- “Leland” is a given first name of a child of celebrity Walter Kronkite. [3]
- “Leland” is the name of locations in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina and Utah, USA.
[edit] NAMESAKES
- “Leland” is the name of a high school in San Jose, California.
- The United States of Leland is the title of a 2003 crime drama movie starring Ryan Gosling as Leland P. Fitzgerald, Don Cheadle as Pearl Madison and Chris Klein as Allen Harris.[4]
[edit] FAMOUS PERSONS
- Amasa Leland Stanford – 19th century American businessman, eighth Governor of New York, California Senator and founder of Stanford University.[5]
- Leland H. Hartwell – Won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2001.[6]
- Walter Leland Cronkite – 20th century American television personality who was well known as the anchor of the CBS News from 1962 through 1981.[7]
- George W. Leland – Member of the United States Navy during the Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for his duties as a gunner’s mate.[8]
- Leland Michael Postil (aka Mike Post) – American television composer who won a primetime Emmy Award in 1996 for “Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music” for his work on the show Murder One.[9]
[edit] NOTES
- ↑ http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/namesearch.html
- ↑ http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
- ↑ http://www.yeahbaby.com/celebrity-baby-names.php?name=Leland
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301976/
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford
- ↑ http://www.behindthename.com/namesakes/search.php?terms=leland
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Leland
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006236/
Author: Rich Kachold
| Gender | male + |
| Length | 6 + |
| Meaning | dweller of a clearing, unseeded or fallow land, meadowland + |
| Meaningnc | dweller of a clearing, unseeded or fallow land, meadowland + |
| Name | leland + |
| Popularity | 3 + |
| Pronunciation | lee-lund, LEE-land + |
| Rank in 2000s | 698 + |
| Related | Le +, Leeland +, Leighland +, and Leyland + |
