Léno
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Léno is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Italian leno (“weak, flexible”).
- FIFinland1 in 169K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 372K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
1,305 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leno in US United States, ES Spain, GN Guinea and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Italian leno (“weak, flexible”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Léno counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,305 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Léno is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, fief, feud (estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, pov. u feudalizmu, zemljišni posjed dobiven od vladara na uživanje uz određene uvjete; feud
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Léno mean, and where does it come from?
- From Italian leno (“weak, flexible”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Léno a male or female name?
- Léno is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024).
- In which country does Léno have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Léno, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leno.
- How common is the name Léno?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,305 people named Léno in 2010, about 1 in 255 thousand residents.
- How common is Léno compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Léno is the 392nd most common surname of 427 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A9noThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Léno” — the 392nd most common surname in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.