Lenna

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Lenna is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name6.4K records spelled Lenna5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Lénna, Lënna, Lénnà

• Spanish given name4.5K records spelled Lenna3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Peru

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Lénna

• Estonian given name1.7K records spelled Lenna4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, United States

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish

  Also written Lëñnä, Lénnä

• Czech given name131 records spelled Lenna4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, United States

  Also written Leňňa, Lenná

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Lenna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In osp, firewood

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Lenna Lowe Yostb. 1878USAmerican suffragist (1878-1972)
• Lenna Glackensb. 1913Artist (6 Dec 1913 - 3 Jun 1943)
• Lenna Bradburnb. 1960CACanadian executive in the public sector
• Lenna Kreivib. 1966SESwedish association football player
• Lenna Kuurmaab. 1985EEEstonian singer-songwriter and actress (born 1985)
• Lenna Vromansb. 1988NLpolitician from the Netherlands

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 345 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lenna?

We estimate roughly 3.7 thousand people bear Lenna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Lenna have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.0 thousand people bear Lenna in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lenna.

Where is Lenna most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lenna is densest in France — about 1 in 61 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

Is Lenna a male or female name?

Lenna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.