Lény
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lény is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 120K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 19K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
3,120 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leny in FR France, NL Netherlands, US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lény 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 3,120 | 1 in 68K | 3.1K | — | — |
| VE Venezuela | 1,047 | 1 in 27K | 1K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 908 | 1 in 19K | 884 | Leny | 5 |
| US United States | 849 | 1 in 392K | 612 | Leny | 37 |
| FR France | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 120K | 7.3K | Leny | 190 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | 5 |
| MQ Martinique | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 5 | — | 3 |
3,120 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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)
Lény is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, being, creature (living being)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nikiforos Laopodisb. 1961GRnot in their usual namefinancial economist (American College of Greece)
- Lény Sellamb. 1973FRFrench actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.2K | #478 |
| MQ Martinique | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) | 2021 | 5 | #76 |
| MQ Martinique | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) | 2017 | 5 | #87 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Lény?
- A machine transcription gives /leɲi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Lény a male or female name?
- Lény is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Lény have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Lény, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lény most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lény is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lény?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,120 people named Lény in 2022, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lény?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A9nyThe 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, “Lény”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.