Boy name origins & meanings Native American : FluteGerman : CourageAmerican : Like a lionScottish : Amid the elms; from the field of elm treesGerman : Lion-hearted Boy name variations Lenny Lennox Lenox Lenix Lennie Leonard Lennard Lenard Lennart Leonardo Leonhard Leon Leo Family name origins & meanings Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a flax grower or merchant, from Polish len ‘flax’.Polish (Leń) : nickname from Polish leń ‘lazybones’.Polish : from a short form of the personal name Leon or Lenart (see Leonard).