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This may be a name for a butterfly in another language.

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This is a variation on the name of a woman who in union with Zeus, disguised as a swan, may have become the mother of Helen--the woman whose face allegedly launched the Trojan War.

Leota may be a type of butterfly.

My Grandmother had this name. It is the name of a small blue prairie flower in the Lakota Sioux language. All the people I've run into with this name were from the midwest/Black Hills region.

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Leota Toombs, famous as the face of Madame Leota in the Haunted Mansion at Disney parks.

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