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All over the world, Leeuw (Lew , Leeuw , Леу ) is quite a rare largely masculine, but uncommonly female given name. The given name Leeuw is characteristic of Singapore, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, Malaysia, and the United States, where it is a rare male name. In absolute terms, it most frequently occurs in the United States, Malaysia, and China. Likewise, Leeuw is the last name as well as the forename.
Leeuw is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Lev , the fictional character from the video game The Last of Us Part II; Lew Moxon , the character in the DC Comics Batman series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold; Lew Archer , the fictional character; Prince Myshkin , the fictional character of Dostoevsky, The Idiot and Fürst Leo Nikolajewitsch Myschkin , the operatic character in the opera Der Idiot (Weinberg), The Idiot, among other works.