SUNNY LEON

From the vocabulary word used to describe someone with a bright and cheerful personality (a derivative of sun, referring to the light and warmth provided by that heavenly body). Compare Sonny.

Spanish (León): habitational name from León, a city in northwestern Spain, named with Latin legio, genitive legionis ‘legion’, a division of the Roman army. In Roman times the city was the garrison of the 7th Legion, known as the Legio Gemina. The city's name became reduced from Legion(em) to Leon(em), and in this form developed an unetymological association with the word for ‘lion’, Spanish león.