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.
Where Lenny is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#519 · 1 in 6,679
- Illinois#884 · 1 in 16,926
- California#1,142 · 1 in 25,110
Best ever in a state: #206 in South Dakota, 1961.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #519 | 17 | 1 in 6,679 |
| Illinois | #884 | 5 | 1 in 16,926 |
| California | #1,142 | 8 | 1 in 25,110 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 23,262 of them was named Lenny, which outranked 85.8% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,029Shamar78
- #1,029Shon78
- #1,029Tariq78
- #1,037Lenny77
- #1,037Armand77
- #1,037Emil77
- #1,037Lars77
- #1,044Asher76
- #1,044Derrell76
- #1,044Dustan76
Tied with 6 names at #1,037; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.