Leni
#1,173 for girls in 2025, 197 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #9,763
Given to girls 98.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 197 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,935since 1938
Leni over time
Rank among girls' names. Leni has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,173 | 197 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,242 | 187 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,195 | 201 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #1,521 | 141 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,750 | 117 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,924 | 99 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,919 | 103 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #2,254 | 81 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,964 | 55 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,139 | 52 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #4,482 | 33 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | — | |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 | — | |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | — | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | — | |
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| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | — | |
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| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
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| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
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| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
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| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,937 | 13 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,340 | 18 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,329 | 18 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,769 | 14 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,742 | 11 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,287 | 15 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,861 | 11 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,416 | 14 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,668 | 11 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 | — | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Leni! It came in at #3,847, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Leni
- 69 spots since 2024 (#1,242 → #1,173)
- 751 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #1,173)
- 2,594 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #1,173)
- Debuted 1938
- Peaked 2025 at #1,173 (197 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,983 girls born in 2023 were named Leni (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,159 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,173 in 2025, was only 1 in 8,159 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.7% of all girls named Leni (942) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 11 | #3,847 (1938) | #4,049 |
| 1940s | 132 | #2,287 (1944) | #2,650 |
| 1950s | 89 | #2,937 (1951) | #4,236 |
| 1960s | 62 | #3,460 (1961) | #5,362 |
| 1970s | 40 | #6,340 (1977) | #7,850 |
| 1980s | 35 | #8,178 (1980) | #10,068 |
| 1990s | 7 | #10,271 (1991) | #10,271 |
| 2000s | 117 | #4,482 (2009) | #7,732 |
| 2010s | 500 | #1,919 (2019) | #3,565 |
| 2020s | 942 | #1,173 (2025) | #1,468 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Leni in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 7,983 of them was named Leni, which outranked 93.2% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 244,368 of them was named Leni, which outranked 31.3% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,921Zydn8
- #8,921Zymarion8
- #8,921Zyrell8
- #9,763Leni7
- #9,763Aaliyan7
- #9,763Aashrit7
- #9,763Abdalrahman7
- #10,821Aadhavan6
- #10,821Aalias6
- #10,821Aalim6
Tied with 1,057 names at #9,763; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.