Lenny
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births · #1,418 for boys in 2025, 128 births
Given to boys 91.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1961 · 199 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,299since 1914
Lenny over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #2,778 | 61 | #1,418 | 128 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #1,371 | 137 |
| 2023 | #3,225 | 50 | #1,390 | 133 |
| 2022 | #3,595 | 43 | #1,479 | 122 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | #1,546 | 113 |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 | #1,655 | 96 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #1,582 | 105 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | #1,679 | 94 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 | #1,644 | 96 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #1,421 | 122 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #1,141 | 165 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #1,619 | 96 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #1,433 | 115 |
| 2012 | — | #1,398 | 119 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,244 | 139 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #1,228 | 144 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,618 | 98 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #1,565 | 102 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #1,576 | 99 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #1,467 | 104 |
| 2005 | — | #1,573 | 88 | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #1,604 | 81 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #1,936 | 60 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #1,529 | 81 |
| 2001 | — | #1,763 | 64 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,768 | 62 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,995 | 48 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #1,768 | 57 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | #1,682 | 53 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,633 | 56 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,512 | 61 |
| 1992 | — | #1,884 | 43 | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,443 | 62 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #1,530 | 55 |
| 1989 | — | #1,537 | 53 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,525 | 48 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,248 | 61 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,161 | 66 | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | #1,333 | 52 |
| 1984 | — | #1,458 | 43 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #1,040 | 72 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #903 | 98 |
| 1981 | — | #1,037 | 77 | |
| 1980 | — | #911 | 95 | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #740 | 136 |
| 1978 | — | #774 | 118 | |
| 1977 | — | #746 | 130 | |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | #706 | 139 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | #700 | 141 |
| 1974 | — | #841 | 91 | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #839 | 90 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | #766 | 108 |
| 1971 | — | #742 | 121 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #759 | 118 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | #727 | 115 |
| 1968 | — | #693 | 119 | |
| 1967 | — | #685 | 118 | |
| 1966 | — | #644 | 132 | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | #649 | 132 |
| 1964 | — | #629 | 152 | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | #598 | 173 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | #586 | 177 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | #555 | 199 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 | #560 | 197 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | #604 | 164 |
| 1958 | — | #622 | 153 | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #613 | 157 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | #703 | 111 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | #763 | 91 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | #754 | 89 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | #852 | 71 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | #896 | 62 |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | #1,040 | 47 |
| 1950 | — | #989 | 49 | |
| 1949 | — | #899 | 59 | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | #774 | 77 |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 | #839 | 68 |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 | #799 | 69 |
| 1945 | — | #837 | 56 | |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | #935 | 47 |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | #1,037 | 42 |
| 1942 | — | #1,228 | 32 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,300 | 26 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,107 | 35 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,425 | 22 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,521 | 20 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,756 | 16 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,062 | 12 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,837 | 15 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,022 | 13 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,155 | 8 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Lenny! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1918, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Lenny
- 47 spots since 2024 (#1,371 → #1,418)
- 237 spots since 2020 (#1,655 → #1,418)
- 277 spots since 2015 (#1,141 → #1,418)
- Biggest jump: 144 spots in 1952 (#1,040 → #896)
- Biggest drop: 171 spots in 1980 (#740 → #911)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1961 at #555 (199 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1952–1980
- Highest: 1 in 10,674 boys born in 1961 were named Lenny (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,344 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 18.2% of all boys named Lenny (1,514) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | #3,115 (1919) | #3,190 |
| 1920s | 41 | #3,155 (1925) | #3,520 |
| 1930s | 111 | #1,425 (1939) | #2,127 |
| 1940s | 511 | #774 (1948) | #976 |
| 1950s | 994 | #604 (1959) | #784 |
| 1960s | 1,514 | #555 (1961) | #633 |
| 1970s | 1,192 | #700 (1975) | #761 |
| 1980s | 665 | #903 (1982) | #1,215 |
| 1990s | 495 | #1,443 (1991) | #1,865 |
| 2000s | 839 | #1,467 (2006) | #1,640 |
| 2010s | 1,195 | #1,141 (2015) | #1,439 |
| 2020s | 729 | #1,371 (2024) | #1,477 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lenny in 1954
Top girls' names in 1954
Top boys' names in 1954
More about 1954
girls
1,941,915 girls got a published name in 1954; 1 in 323,653 of them was named Lenny, which outranked 22.3% of the 6,625 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,655Zanna7
- #4,655Zelia7
- #4,655Zoeann7
- #5,148Lenny6
- #5,148Adel6
- #5,148Adrien6
- #5,148Afton6
- #5,753Adana5
- #5,753Adrain5
- #5,753Adrean5
Tied with 604 names at #5,148; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,038,751 boys got a published name in 1954; 1 in 22,907 of them was named Lenny, which outranked 82.7% of the 4,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #751Hilton90
- #751Houston90
- #751Jared90
- #754Lenny89
- #754Dusty89
- #754Judson89
- #754Theron89
- #758Carol88
- #758Courtney88
- #758Errol88
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 504Arlin#878 → #1,382
- ↓ 347Adan#895 → #1,242
- ↓ 345Dayton#966 → #1,311
- ↓ 302Garey#966 → #1,268
- ↓ 293Bartholomew#975 → #1,268
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.