Lennie

What Lennie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Lennie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #237 vs #8,910 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lennie?

US: Rising: up from #12086 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #586 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1905, when 11 boys got the name (#741 that year). First in the US records in 1882.

How common

• About 1 in 213,510 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,295 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,182 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Lennie is #8910 in the US and #237 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 89.6% of US babies named Lennie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lonnie86 US · 14 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Lennie

Boys

• James#6“May He Heel”^*
• Peter#187“stone, rock”^*
• Aaron#80Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1989, with 15,308 babies; 4,041 in 2025
• Edward#224“wealth, riches + ward, guard”^*
• Patrick#235“patrician”^*
• Charles#48“free man”^*

For a sister

• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Victoria#54“victory”^*
• Amy#257“beloved”^*
• Rachel#250“ewe”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Lennie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.