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In all the world, Leaf (Lip
, Leaf
, 利夫
) is quite a rare dominantly masculine, but uncommonly female forename. The forename Leaf is habitual in Hong Kong, where it is quite a rare epicene name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is a rare boy's name, and Taiwan. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. More frequently, Leaf is the last name as well as the forename.
Leaf is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Leaf Coneybear , the musical character in the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn; a homeschooler and the second runner-up in his district; Lev , the fictional character from the video game The Last of Us Part II; Prince Myshkin , the fictional character of Dostoevsky, The Idiot; Lip Doughty , the fictional character from One Piece and Fürst Leo Nikolajewitsch Myschkin , the operatic character in the opera Der Idiot (Weinberg), The Idiot, among other works.