"Traditional name"
The name Legion is commonly a male name.
Legion is the English word for a unit of the Roman army, from Latin legio (genitive legionis), a body of levied soldiers, related to the verb legere, to gather or choose. In the Gospel of Mark a character gives Legion as his name. English does not inherit it as a given name, and its use as a personal name in the United States is recent, first appearing in birth records in 2003.
The pronunciation of Legion is LEE-jun.
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