Entry № 5849 · Greek origin

Leontion Leontion — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ leh-ON-tee-on /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Epicurean philosopher (Greek)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "epicurean philosopher (greek)".

Leontion (Λεόντιον) was the Athenian Epicurean philosopher of the late 4th c. BCE — a student of Epicurus himself who wrote a famous (now lost) treatise refuting the philosophy of Theophrastus, head of the Lyceum.

Featured in Diogenes Laërtius's Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

Greek Epicurean philosopher.

The name in its native script.

Λεόντιον
Transliteration
Leóntion
Pronunciation
/ ləˈɒn.ti.ɒn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Leontion stands.

Leontion does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Leontions before her.

Real people
Leontion
Greek Epicurean philosopher.
late 4th c. BCE
In fiction
Leontion
Featured in Diogenes Laërtius.
3rd c. CE

Names connected to Leontion.

The number behind Leontion.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Leontion reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.