Meaning not yet researched.
Lenny: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 128 in 2025. Its best rank was #556 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #556 in 1961; #1,419 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Lenny in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,419 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #556.
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Lenny: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 128 boys in 2025. Peak: #556 in 1961 · most boys in one year: 199 (1961).
In 2025, 128 US boys were named Lenny, making it the 1,419th most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #1,377 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 137 boys named Lenny in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #556, reached in 1961. That year also had the most boys given the name: 199. For comparison, it was #1,144 in 2015 and #998 in 1950.
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Lenny, making it the 2,799th most common girls’ name of the year, up 163 places from #2,962 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 56 girls named Lenny in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,799, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #8,727 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lenny in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 9,035 US babies have been given the name, 8.1% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,558 babies named Lenny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,146 US boys were named Lenny; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 137. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,344 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lenny ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #855 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lennie (7,725 babies since 1880), Len (4,616 babies since 1880) and Leni (1,962 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lenee, Lianny and Lenni are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lenee (480), Lianny (407), Lenni (357), Liany (303), Leani (269), Leanny (235), Lenya (177), Leniya (146), Leny (103), Leany (71), Leanni (71), Leiny (35), and more.
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 Lenny in the open dataset we use.
Lenny is listed as a nickname for Jalen, Leonard.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #855 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #856 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #981 | #1,267 |
| California | 18 | #1,136 | #855 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,314 | #941 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,396 | #951 |
| New York | 7 | #1,502 | #637 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,617 | #1,182 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,799 | 128 | #1,419 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,962 | 137 | #1,377 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,251 | 133 | #1,393 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,629 | 122 | #1,488 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,648 | 113 | #1,549 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,832 | 96 | #1,668 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,393 | 105 | #1,588 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,258 | 94 | #1,685 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,603 | 96 | #1,656 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,183 | 122 | #1,428 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,727 | 165 | #1,144 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,947 | 96 | #1,621 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,730 | 115 | #1,441 |
| 2012 | — | — | 119 | #1,404 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,392 | 139 | #1,247 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,828 | 144 | #1,229 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,586 | 98 | #1,621 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,177 | 102 | #1,570 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,697 | 99 | #1,589 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,086 | 104 | #1,473 |
| 2005 | — | — | 88 | #1,580 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,365 | 81 | #1,614 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,248 | 60 | #1,952 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,209 | 81 | #1,540 |
| 2001 | — | — | 64 | #1,773 |
| 2000 | — | — | 62 | #1,775 |
| 1999 | — | — | 48 | #2,012 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,497 | 57 | #1,783 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,096 | 27 | #2,873 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,814 | 33 | #2,407 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,867 | 53 | #1,695 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,738 | 56 | #1,636 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,141 | 61 | #1,519 |
| 1992 | — | — | 43 | #1,897 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,849 | 62 | #1,448 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,873 | 55 | #1,541 |
| 1989 | — | — | 53 | #1,541 |
| 1988 | — | — | 48 | #1,539 |
| 1987 | — | — | 61 | #1,255 |
| 1986 | — | — | 66 | #1,168 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,973 | 52 | #1,341 |
| 1984 | — | — | 43 | #1,474 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,212 | 72 | #1,043 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,473 | 98 | #905 |
| 1981 | — | — | 77 | #1,041 |
| 1980 | — | — | 95 | #914 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,626 | 136 | #743 |
| 1978 | — | — | 118 | #776 |
| 1977 | — | — | 130 | #749 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,413 | 139 | #707 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,469 | 141 | #701 |
| 1974 | — | — | 91 | #846 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,079 | 90 | #840 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,719 | 108 | #769 |
| 1971 | — | — | 121 | #743 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,715 | 118 | #760 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,315 | 115 | #728 |
| 1968 | — | — | 119 | #694 |
| 1967 | — | — | 118 | #686 |
| 1966 | — | — | 132 | #646 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,078 | 132 | #650 |
| 1964 | — | — | 152 | #632 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,251 | 173 | #598 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,583 | 177 | #587 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,609 | 199 | #556 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,818 | 197 | #561 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,840 | 164 | #605 |
| 1958 | — | — | 153 | #622 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,615 | 157 | #614 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,049 | 111 | #704 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,320 | 91 | #764 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,476 | 89 | #756 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,392 | 71 | #855 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,730 | 62 | #899 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,215 | 47 | #1,047 |
| 1950 | — | — | 49 | #998 |
| 1949 | — | — | 59 | #900 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,485 | 77 | #777 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,586 | 68 | #840 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,966 | 69 | #802 |
| 1945 | — | — | 56 | #843 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,256 | 47 | #941 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,014 | 42 | #1,045 |
| 1942 | — | — | 32 | #1,238 |
| 1941 | — | — | 26 | #1,321 |
| 1940 | — | — | 35 | #1,118 |
| 1939 | — | — | 22 | #1,442 |
| 1938 | — | — | 20 | #1,545 |
| 1937 | — | — | 16 | #1,798 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,132 |
| 1935 | — | — | 15 | #1,884 |
| 1934 | — | — | 13 | #2,082 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,162 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,604 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,418 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,993 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,284 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,706 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,330 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,676 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,270 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,542 |
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).