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Leland
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English
Etymology
Shortened from en McLeland, en McClellan, from en ga Mac ga giolla Giolla ga Fhaoláin, "son of servant of (Saint) ga Faolán (=Little Wolf)".
Pronunciation
en /ˈliːlənd/
en iːlənd 2
Proper noun
en Irish.
en male surnames.
en 1960 w:Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion Penguin 2006 9781440622991 The old man, busy with expanding his logging operations, took no special notice of the blessed event other than christening the boy Leland Stanford Stamper in what he considered a favor to his young wife; he stomped into her room in Wakonda, calk boots and all, trailing sawdust, mud, and the stink of machine oil, and announced, “Little honey, I intend to let you call that boy there after that school you're forever mooning about quittin'. How does that strike you?"
en 1992 w:Sue Grafton I is for Innocent Pan Macmillan 2010 0330523619 With a name like Leland, he was doomed. He looked like the kind of kid who'd been tormented by his schoolmates since the first day of school, too bright and too big to avoid the involuntary cruelties of other middle-class children.
en Eli Hager The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security w:ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek 2025-09-08 On Feb. 10, on the third floor of the Social Security Administration’s Baltimore-area headquarters, Leland Dudek unfurled a 4-foot-wide roll of paper that extended to 20 feet in length. https://web.archive.org/web/20260928031753/https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek 28 September 2026
en number of places c/USA:
en village co/LaSalle County s/Illinois.
en minor city co/Winnebago County s/Iowa.
en twp/and/ucomm/and/CDP therein, in co/Leelanau County s/Michigan.
en city co/Washington County s/Mississippi.
en town co/Brunswick County s/North Carolina.
en ucomm co/Jefferson County s/Washington.
en ucomm town/Honey Creek co/Sauk County s/Wisconsin.
Related terms
en Phelan
en Whelan
Anagrams
en adelln Lalden Elland