# Lennie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lennie/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,725 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,890 / 4,835 (63% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,109, 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | 17,007 |
| 2010 | 7 | 14,340 |
| 2012 | 6 | 16,065 |
| 2014 | 6 | 15,732 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,557 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,401 |
| 2017 | 21 | 5,950 |
| 2018 | 19 | 6,409 |
| 2019 | 17 | 6,905 |
| 2020 | 21 | 5,766 |
| 2021 | 22 | 5,677 |
| 2022 | 31 | 4,538 |
| 2023 | 66 | 2,661 |
| 2024 | 51 | 3,148 |
| 2025 | 69 | 2,557 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | 10,935 |
| 2007 | 7 | 10,443 |
| 2009 | 9 | 8,729 |
| 2010 | 8 | 9,333 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,703 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,355 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,530 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,252 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,416 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,554 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,399 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,277 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,296 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,791 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9,378 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 11 | 2,314 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 16 | 1,834 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 11 | 2,286 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,449 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,948 |
| 2023 | 24 | 1,325 |
| 2024 | 25 | 1,302 |
| 2025 | 27 | 1,197 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 852 |
| 2012 | 52 | 654 |
| 2013 | 52 | 647 |
| 2014 | 67 | 544 |
| 2015 | 63 | 586 |
| 2016 | 60 | 597 |
| 2017 | 89 | 462 |
| 2018 | 91 | 449 |
| 2019 | 102 | 414 |
| 2020 | 80 | 482 |
| 2021 | 157 | 299 |
| 2022 | 212 | 230 |
| 2023 | 217 | 224 |
| 2024 | 186 | 255 |
| 2025 | 210 | 237 |

## People named Lennie

- Lennie James, British actor
- Lennie Tristano, American jazz pianist and composer (1919–1978)
- Lennie Niehaus, American saxophonist and composer (1929–2020)
- Lennie Hayton, American composer and conductor (1908-1971)
- Lennie Bluett, American actor and musician (1919-2016)
- Lennie Kristensen, Danish bicycle racer, born 1968
- Lennie Rosenbluth, American basketball player (1933–2022)

## 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.