Lenne
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from place-name in Westphalia and Brunswick
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/lɛn/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Lenne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 103K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 169K
- SESweden1 in 213K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
114 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from place-name in Westphalia and Brunswick
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lenne 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 114 | 1 in 103K | 114 | Lenne | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 56 | 1 in 3.8M | 61 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 48 | 1 in 213K | 48 | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | 33 | 1 in 169K | 197 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 327 | Lenne | 11 |
114 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Lenne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Le Neu, an immigrant from Liège
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Hungarian, third-person singular conditional present of van
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, A toponym for rivers and settlements in Germany
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Several rivers and settlements in Germany.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, upe Vācijā, Reinas pietekas Rūras pieteka, garums - 131 km
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Bert Lenneb. 1889AUAustralian rules footballer
- George Lenneb. 1916AUAustralian rules footballer (1916-2014)
- Jean Lenneb. 1945FRFrench politician
- Gérard Lenneb. 1946FRFrench film critic
- Laurent Lenneb. 1968FRFrench singer-songwriter
- Catherine Lenneb. 1968FRFrench scientist
- Marion Lenneb. 1974FRFrench politician
- Yanis Lenneb. 1996FRFrench handball player
- Arthur Lenneb. 2001FRFrench handball player
- Diane LenneFRFrench entrepreneur
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)Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 114 | #13,944 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 56 | #96,827 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #13,010 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 33 | #32,331 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #66,657 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Lenne?
- In French /lɛn/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Lenne mean, and where does it come from?
- from place-name in Westphalia and Brunswick Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Lenne have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 114 people named Lenne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lenne.
- Where is Lenne most common?
- Lenne is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 103 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lenne?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 114 people named Lenne in 2008, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lenneThe 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, “Lenne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.