Lënis

surname · Latin script

Lënis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country: 3,503 people, counted by asosab. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin lēnis (“soft, smooth”).

  • VEVenezuela1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 46K
  • UYUruguay1 in 71K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

Venezuela (measured from records)

3,503 people

Record sources
7 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: reference-verified

1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lenis in 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

(measured from records)

Borrowed from Latin lēnis (“soft, smooth”).

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Lënis 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.

Where Lënis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela3,5031 in 8.2K3.5K——
US United States5631 in 591K1.1KLenis7
BR Brazil2901 in 730K298——
CR Costa Rica1121 in 46K112——
UY Uruguay481 in 71K48——
GY Guyana51 in 150K5——

3,503 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Lënis is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, Colombia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese

    Also written Lenis, Lenís, Lênis, Lénis, Lënïs

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lënis under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lënis mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin lēnis (“soft, smooth”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Which countries have the most people named Lënis?
In Venezuela, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Lënis, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Lënis most common?
Lënis is densest in Venezuela, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lënis?
In Venezuela, the national register counted 3,503 people named Lënis, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.

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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, “Lënis” — ranked 479th in Venezuela (asosab). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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