Levander

leh-VAN-der

Variant of Leander, Levante, or Levan, Swedish combination name

"lion man; east wind, to rise; the lion; heart + man"

Levander Origin and Meaning

The name Levander is a boy's name meaning "lion man; east wind, to rise; the lion; heart + man".

Levander combines the poetic qualities of Leander with the might Evander, and then adds in a dash of Lavender too. Sometimes used as a surname, it could be a sound-alike to the Italian Levante, a twist on the Leo variant, Levan, or a play on the aforementioned Greek Leander.

Other possibilities suggest it was coined in Sweden as a combination of the Hebrew Lev, meaning "heart" and the Greek suffix-ander meaning "man", to create a name translating roughly to "man's heart" or "heart of the man". Alternatively, it could denote someone from the Swedish town of Levene or the historical Mediterranean region of Levant.

Whichever etymological root you decide to follow, Levander could make an interesting choice for a boy, or as a middle name, with rugged edges but flower-adjacent sounds.