Family name origins & meanings
- Variant, due to folk etymology, of Leonard.
- Possibly also a translation of French Lesage.
- William Learned was admitted to the First Church in Charlestown, MA, in 1632, and in 1640 was one of the first settlers of Woburn, MA. One of his better known descendants, Ebenezer, a revolutionary war officer, was born at Oxford, MA, in 1728.