# Lennart (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lennart/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 426 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 426 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 | 3,978 |
| 1951 | 7 | 3,232 |
| 1952 | 7 | 3,258 |
| 1956 | 7 | 3,391 |
| 1957 | 6 | 3,801 |
| 1958 | 6 | 3,761 |
| 1959 | 8 | 3,164 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,388 |
| 1963 | 8 | 3,212 |
| 1964 | 6 | 3,859 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,431 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,218 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,480 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,373 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,295 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Lennart

- Lennart Meri, Estonian writer, filmmaker and politician; President of Estonia in 1992–2001 (1929-2006)
- Lennart Karl, German association football player
- Lennart Strand, athletics competitor (1921-2004)
- Karl Lennart Oesch, Finnish general and convicted war criminal (1892–1978)
- Lennart Thy, German footballer
- Lennart Klingström, Canoe racer (1916–1994)
- Lennart Magnusson, fencer (1924–2011)
- Lennart Grill, German association football player
- Lennart Moser, German association football player
- Lennart van Lierop, Dutch rower
- Lennart Czyborra, German footballer
- Lennart Stekelenburg, Dutch swimmer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.