Lente
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɛnteɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lente is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 990K(measured from records)
- LSLesotho≈1 in 50K
- NLNetherlands1 in 270K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
342 people
Highest-authority source
Lesotho, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lens
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lente is read(measured from records)
Lente is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English50%
An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lente in French.
- Portuguese9.7%
lens
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lente in German.
- Dutch5.8%
spring
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Lente 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 342 | 1 in 619K | 342 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 336 | 1 in 990K | 387 | Lente | 109 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Lente | 47 |
| FR France | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 407K | 24 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 529K | — | Lente | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 64 | 1 in 270K | 928 | Lente | 18 |
| LS Lesotho | #605 | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Lente | 1 |
342 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Lente 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 Afrikaans, spring, the season between winter and summer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, feminine singular of lent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Theodor Lenteb. 1605DEGerman diplomat (1605-1668)
- Johann Hugo von Lenteb. 1640DEGerman diplomat (1640-1718)
- Christian von Lenteb. 1649DEDanish diplomat
- Gábor Lenteb. 1973HUHungarian chemist and university teacher (born: 1973)
- Sébastien Lenteb. 1985FRFrench rower
- Derrick J. LenteUSAmerican politician
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 387 | #56,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 345 | #55,609 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 342 | #23,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 336 | #60,045 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 64 | #26,436 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 27 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lente come from?
- lens Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Lente?
- In the etymology graph, Lenz is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lente?
- A machine transcription gives /lɛnteɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lente mean?
- In English, An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.
- In which country does Lente have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 342 people named Lente, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lente?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 342 people named Lente, about 1 in 619 thousand residents.
- How common is Lente compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Lente is the 605th most common surname of 5,753 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lente?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lenteThe 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, “Lente” — the 605th most common surname in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.