Meaning not yet researched.
Leni: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 197 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,179 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Leni in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,179 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Leni: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 197 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,179 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 201 (2023).
In 2025, 197 US girls were named Leni, making it the 1,179th most common girls’ name of the year, up 67 places from #1,246 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 187 girls named Leni in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,179, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 201, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,814 in 2015 and #3,335 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leni in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1938 with 6 babies. In all, 1,962 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 949 babies named Leni.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,233 US girls were named Leni; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 201. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,159 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Leni ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #444 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lennie (7,725 babies since 1880), Lani (7,556 babies since 1880), Lenny (9,035 babies since 1880) and Leonie (2,231 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leiani, Leyani and Lynia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leiani (463), Leyani (166), Lynia (154), Leeani (117), Leniah (61), Lyani (44), Lehani (18), Leahni (14).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Leni in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 5 | #444 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #636 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #694 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #696 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #697 | — |
| North Carolina | 12 | #812 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #857 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #860 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #861 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #948 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #973 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #974 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #993 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #994 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,024 | — |
| New York | 14 | #1,061 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,164 | — |
| California | 17 | #1,390 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,475 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,627 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,596 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 197 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 2024 | 187 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 2023 | 201 | #1,197 | 7 | #10,343 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,925 | 5 | #13,326 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,166 | — | — |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,814 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,888 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,497 | 5 | #13,275 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,183 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,313 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,044 | 5 | #13,478 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,541 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,053 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,279 | 5 | #13,588 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,316 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,847 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,255 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,955 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,347 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,964 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,369 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,681 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,336 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,658 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,554 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,192 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,625 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,134 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,597 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,254 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,737 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,450 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,077 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,630 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,113 | — | — |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,538 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,456 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,839 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,791 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,078 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,048 | — | — |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,475 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,422 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,023 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,026 | — | — |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,374 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,607 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,107 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).