Lennard
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Leonard
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lennard is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 50K
- DKDenmark1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
2,115 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant spelling of Leonard, perhaps in part a transferred use of the surname, Be which was derived from the given name in the Middle Ages.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lennard is read(measured from records)
Lennard 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.
- English58%
A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Leonard.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German21%
- Dutch5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lennard in Dutch.
- Spanish5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lennard in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lennard 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 2,115 | 1 in 8.2K | 2.1K | Lennard | 9 |
| US United States | 808 | 1 in 412K | 803 | Lennard | 29 |
| DK Denmark | 101 | 1 in 58K | 101 | Lennard | 29 |
| SE Sweden | 48 | 1 in 213K | 48 | Lennard | 9 |
| FI Finland | 47 | 1 in 119K | 154 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | — | — |
2,115 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lennard is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Variant spelling of Leonard, perhaps in part a transferred use of the surname, Be which was derived from the given name in the Middle Ages.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Variant of Leonard or LenNERT.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
English: assimilated spelling of LEONARD , perhaps in part representing a transferred use of the surname derived from this given name in the Middle Ages.
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)
- Lennard Pearceb. 1915GBBritish actor (1915–1984)
- Lennard J. Davisb. 1949USAmerican academic
- Lennard Bertzbachb. 1988DEGerman actor
- Lennard Sowahb. 1992DEGerman footballer
- Lennard Hofstedeb. 1994NLDutch road cyclist
- Lennard Freemanb. 1995USAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- Lennard Kämnab. 1996DEGerman bicycle racer
- Lennard Maloneyb. 1999DEGerman-American soccer player
- Lennard Hartjesb. 2003NLDutch footballer
- Daan Lennard Liebrenzb. 2005DEGerman 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 601 | #39,490 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 563 | #37,266 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 293 | #67,318 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Where does the name Lennard come from?
- Variant spelling of Leonard, perhaps in part a transferred use of the surname, Be which was derived from the given name in the Middle Ages. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Lennard mean?
- In English, A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Leonard.
- Is Lennard a male or female name?
- Lennard 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.
- What are other forms of the name Lennard?
- In the etymology graph, Leonardo, Leonard and Lenny are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lennard have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Lennard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lennard.
- Where is Lennard most common?
- Lennard is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lennard?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,115 people named Lennard, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lennard?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lennardThe 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, “Lennard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.