Lents
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Possibly an Americanized spelling of Lenz
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lents is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 419K
- NLNetherlands1 in 691K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
794 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Possibly an Americanized spelling of Lenz.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lents 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 794 | 1 in 419K | 863 | Lents | 199 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Lents | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 81 | 1 in 2.6M | 81 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 919K | — | Lents | 14 |
| CA Canada | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 758K | — | Lents | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Lents | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 21 | Lents | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Lents | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| BB Barbados | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Lents | 2 |
794 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed 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)Lents 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 Catalan, masculine plural of lent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Dienvidrietumu vējš
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)- Tera Wrayb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress (1982–2016)
- Lisa Lentsb. 1986BYWorld Champion and European Champion in Taekwondo, National Coach, host, reporter, producer, casting director, Personal trainer, nutritionist
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 863 | #29,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 814 | #27,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 794 | #29,661 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 81 | #74,062 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,570 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 21 | #5,196 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 16 | #7,113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Lents mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of Lenz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lents have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 794 people named Lents, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lents.
- How common is the name Lents?
- In the United States, the national register counted 794 people named Lents in 2010, about 1 in 419 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lents?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lentsThe 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, “Lents”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.