Lennart

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

How Lennart is read●(measured from records)

Lennart is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Swedish35%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Lennart in Swedish.

• German29%

  männl. Vom., schwedische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Finnish23%

  a Swedish and, rarely, Finnish male given name

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English12%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Lennart in English.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

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

• Russian given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Леннарт

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Lennart 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 Danish, a male given name, equivalent to English Leonard

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Scandinavian form of LEONARD . Pet forms: Lenne, Lelle .

  as a word

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)

• Lennart Torstenssonb. 1603SESwedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (1603-1651)
• Lennart Bernadotteb. 1909SESwedish prince (1909–2004)
• Lennart Hellsingb. 1919SESwedish children's book writer and poet (1919–2015)
• Lennart Strandb. 1921SEathletics competitor (1921-2004)
• Lennart Nilssonb. 1922SESwedish photographer (1922–2017)
• Lennart Carlesonb. 1928SESwedish mathematician
• Lennart Merib. 1929EEEstonian writer, filmmaker and politician; President of Estonia in 1992–2001 (1929-2006)
• Lennart Johanssonb. 1929SEindustrialist, Swedish football administrator, president of UEFA (1990 - 2007)
• Lennart Thyb. 1992DEGerman footballer
• Lennart Karlb. 2008DEGerman association football player

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).

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Lennart come from?

a male given name, equivalent to English Leonard Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Lennart a male or female name?

Lennart is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

In which country does Lennart have the most bearers?

In Sweden, the national register counted about 97 thousand people named Lennart, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lennart.

Where is Lennart most common?

Lennart is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 106 people carrying it.

What does the name Lennart mean?

In Finnish, a Swedish and, rarely, Finnish male given name

What are other forms of the name Lennart?

In the etymology graph, Leonardo, Leonard and Lenny are forms of the same name in other languages.

How common is the name Lennart?

In Sweden, the national register counted 96,681 people named Lennart, about 1 in 106 residents.

How common is Lennart compared with other names?

In Benin, Lennart is the 134th most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.