Lenny

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lenny is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: English diminutive of Leonard, from Germanic 'lion' + 'hard, brave'.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria1 in 8.2K◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 8.8K
  • AUAustralia1 in 23K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈40K ●

across 14 countries

Sources
379 ●

111K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.4K ◐

France

Meaning & origin●

English diminutive of Leonard, from Germanic 'lion' + 'hard, brave'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Lenny is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—28,760△2 rec.1 in 2.4K29K—5
VE Venezuela—7,6973 rec.——Lenny4
US United States—7,34685K rec.1 in 45K7.3KLenny379
AU Australia—5,0683.5K rec.—118Lenny118
GB United Kingdom—4,8974.6K rec.——Lenny116
PH Philippines—4,1093.5K rec.——Lenny48
NL Netherlands—3,3911.3K rec.—532Lenny52
CA Canada—2,7442.1K rec.—2Lenny98
DE Germany—2,6782.2K rec.——Lenny97
AT Austria#7612,012179 rec.—581Lenny34
EC Ecuador—1,929△34 rec.1 in 8.8K1.9KLenny18
MY Malaysia—943734 rec.——Lenny39

Roughly 29K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 2.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French144K37%
  • English120K31%
  • Spanish54K14%
  • Indonesian17K4%
  • German8.6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French143,97337%
English119,83131%
Spanish54,15614%
Indonesian17,2404%
German8,6002%

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◐

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

  • French given name153K records spelled Lenny62 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Laos, Belgium

    Languages: French, Hindi, Lao

    Also written Lenin, Lennie, Rennie, Lénny, Renny

  • Spanish given name69K records spelled Lenny16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lënny, Lëňňy, Lëńńy, Lénny, Lënnÿ

  • Indonesian given name21K records spelled Lenny4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Lenny, Lènny

  • Czech given name1.8K records spelled Lenny18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Czechia, Poland, Russia

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Russian

    Also written Ленни, Lennie, Ленні, Lenni, Ленный

61 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●

Lenny is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Short form of Lennox, Leonard, etc.; used independently.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Pet form of pLen. Variant: Lennie. Lenora ° Originally a contracted form of Leonora, although sometimes chosen as an expanded version of jLena.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A diminutive of the male given name Leonard.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Diminutif anglo-américain de Léonard; origine latine et germanique, signifie « lion fort ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Swedish, Lenny är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till → Leonard. Vid förra sekelskiftet gavs det till både män och kvinnor i Sverige. En känd amerikansk namnbärare är musikern Lenny Kravitz (f. 1964).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

050100150200192019401960198020002020199 · 1961

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Lenny in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2025
Yearrecords
19145
19198
19207
19238
19245
19258
19266
19297
19316
19337
193413
193515
193612
193716
193820
193922
194035
194126
194232
194342
194447
194556
194669
194768
194877
194959
195049
195147
195262
195371
195489
195591
1956111
1957157
1958153
1959164
1960197
1961199
1962177
1963173
1964152
1965132
1966132
1967118
1968119
1969115
1970118
1971121
1972108
197390
197491
1975141
1976139
1977130
1978118
1979136
198095
198177
198298
198372
198443
198552
198666
198761
198848
198953
199055
199162
199243
199361
199456
199553
199633
199727
199857
199948
200062
200164
200281
200360
200481
200588
2006104
200799
2008102
200998
2010144
2011139
2012119
2013115
201496
2015165
2016122
201796
201894
2019105
202096
2021113
2022122
2023133
2024137
2025128

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 102 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Lenny Bruce, b. 1925Lenny Montana, b. 1926Lenny Wilkens, b. 1937Lenny Kuhr, b. 1950Lenny Clarke, b. 1953Lenny Henry, b. 1958Lenny Von Dohlen, b. 1958Lenny Abrahamson, b. 1966Lenny Venito, b. 1966Lenny Nangis, b. 1994

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●

Attested in 86 sources across 49 countries.

Official registers attesting Lenny
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202429K#97
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.3K#2,746
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.9K#639
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#2,746
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—599#2,443
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024581#271
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—532#3,077
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—370#3,850
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020346—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022259—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—246#3,060
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000242#74,398

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 875 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lenny?
We estimate roughly 40 thousand people bear Lenny (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Lenny have the most bearers?
We estimate about 29 thousand people bear Lenny in France, more than in any other country in our records.
Where is Lenny most common?
Lenny is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is Lenny compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Lenny is the 760th most common given name of 33,890 given names recorded there.
Is Lenny a male or female name?
Lenny is a male 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.
What does the name Lenny mean?
Recorded meaning: English diminutive of Leonard, from Germanic 'lion' + 'hard, brave'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lenny” — the 760th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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