Meanings
- A surname from Irish.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
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.
2025 September 8, Eli Hager, “The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security”, in ProPublica2 more examples
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?"
1960, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, Penguin, published 2006, →ISBNWith 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.
1992, Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent, Pan Macmillan, published 2010, →ISBN - A number of places in the United States:
- A village in LaSalle County, Illinois.
- A minor city in Winnebago County, Iowa.
- A township, unincorporated community, and census-designated place therein, in Leelanau County, Michigan.
- A city in Washington County, Mississippi.
- A town in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
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Leland. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Leland
“Leland.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Leland. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Leland,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Leland.
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