Leonarda en · PROPN
Etymology
From Leonard + -a.
Meanings
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A female given name of rare usage.
Her father, the impoverished last of an old Boston line, named her Leonarda in honor of the great da Vinci, and she had grown up in an outsize, disintegrating old house on Cobb’s Hill.
2000 March 12, Lee Pennock Huntington, “Books & authors: Pierce’s writing evokes a strong sense of place”, in Sally West Johnson, editor, Vermont Sunday Magazine (The Sunday Rutland Herald), Rutland, Vt.: Times Argus Association, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:Leonarda Foss is scared, and she doesn’t care who knows it. […] She especially prizes a note from an 80-year-old woman in Pennsylvania named Leonarda who had despaired of knowing anyone else with that name before reading a news account of Leonarda’s fight against cancer.
1986 February 24, Victor Volland, “Transplant Stirs Fear, Hope in Cancer Victim, 16”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 108, number 55, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3A, columns 1–2:A daughter was born on Dec. 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dlugosh of Ord who has been named Leonarda Susan.
1953 January 1, “Four More Babies in Ord Hospital”, in The Ord Quiz, volume 71, number 40, Ord, Neb., →OCLC, page 5, column 8: