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I suppose it's because I'm not used to it, but when I looked at it I just saw 'lean' as in 'skinny'. Which meant that I heard it like that in my head; leenora, like Lee + Nora. But I suppose you wanted it to be like Leah + Nora?

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I don't think the Leo- bit sounds masculine anyway. The name Leo has a definite O sound, but the first O in Leonora is a schwa. So maybe it looks masculine? But hearing it would be more frequent than seeing it, surely?

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I can't be bothered to look it up right now - past my bed time - but I think Tennyson wrote a poem, probably one of his more medievalist ones, about someone called Eleänor, so clearly he intended it to have four syllables. I remember being cross because the name only appeared on a line by itself as a refrain, so it wasn't clear where the stress(es) would fall.