Lenny
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lenny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In English, recorded as Short form of Lennox, Leonard, etc.; used independently.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 9.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 34K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English diminutive of Leonard, from Germanic 'lion' + 'hard, brave'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lenny is read(measured from records)
Lenny 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.
- English41%
- French26%
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lenny in Spanish.
- Indonesian6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lenny in Indonesian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Lenny 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 29K | — | 6 |
| PH Philippines | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Lenny | 55 |
| US United States | 8,511 | 1 in 39K | 7.3K | Lenny | 431 |
| EC Ecuador | 1,929 | 1 in 8.8K | 1.9K | — | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Lenny | 150 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 532 | Lenny | 51 |
| BE Belgium | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1 | Lenny | 56 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Lenny 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.
Pet form of pLen. Variant: Lennie. Lenora ° Originally a contracted form of Leonora, although sometimes chosen as an expanded version of jLena.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Lenny är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till → Leonard. Vid förra sekelskiftet gavs det till både män och kvinnor i Sverige. En känd amerikansk namnbärare är musikern Lenny Kravitz (f. 1964).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Lenny Bruceb. 1925USAmerican comedian and social critic (1925–1966)
- Lenny Montanab. 1926USAmerican professional wrestler and actor (1926–1992)
- Lenny Wilkensb. 1937USAmerican basketball player and coach (1937–2025)
- Lenny Kuhrb. 1950NLDutch singer-songwriter
- Lenny Clarkeb. 1953USAmerican actor and comedian
- Lenny Henryb. 1958GBBritish-Jamaican actor and comedian
- Lenny Von Dohlenb. 1958USAmerican actor (1958–2022)
- Lenny Abrahamsonb. 1966IEIrish film director
- Lenny Venitob. 1966USAmerican actor
- Lenny Nangisb. 1994FRFrench footballer
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 87 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 242 | #74,398 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 206 | #95,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 165 | #107,669 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #159,320 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Lenny a male or female name?
- Lenny 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 Lenny?
- In the etymology graph, Leonardo, Len and Lennart are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Leonard.
- In which country does Lenny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Lenny in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where does the name Lenny come from?
- English diminutive of Leonard, from Germanic 'lion' + 'hard, brave'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What does the name Lenny mean?
- In English, Short form of Lennox, Leonard, etc.; used independently.
- How common is the name Lenny?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,511 people named Lenny in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lennyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lenny”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.