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Lenard

#13,128 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Leonard

Lenard has been given to 10,004 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #13,128 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1925, with 204 recorded.

Babies named Lenard, 2025

1 in 663,000

Lenard over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lenard: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Leonard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lenard means

Lenard is a variant of Leonard.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lenard is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɛn.əɹd/ and /ˈlɛn.əd/ for Lenard.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lenard → Leonard. The family’s meaning is “lion”, recorded in English with the source elements leo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leonard.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,997 boys were recorded with the name Lenard between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 204 in 1925; its best national rank was #410 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,850 in 2020 to #13,128 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,421 in 2015 to #13,128 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Lenard between 1928 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1928; its best national rank was #3,992 in 1928.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lenard?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,128
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lenard sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lenard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lenards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lenard was born before 1941 — so the typical Lenard is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,032
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1920s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (1,938).

Is Lenard rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−5,047
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,278
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,707
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.5%
Peak was 1925 (204)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#410
1932

Spellings of Lenard

Lenard is not the most common spelling — Leonard is, with 39.2% against Lenard's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lenard is used

Across 1910–2025, Lenard was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 27,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

019 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,263
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 5,882
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 8,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 9,091
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 10,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 11,111
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 14,286
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lenard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lenard around the world

Where Lenard ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1944–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lenard

People whose public names include Lenard, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lenard in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lenard. Linked forms have their own page here.

LynardLenardoLynarLenart

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lenard by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,128
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,278
Best rank ever
#410
1932
Peak year
1925
204 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,997
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,992
1928
Peak year
1928
7 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lenard

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LennonLennoxLennardLennyLenoardLennieLenwardLenoxMaynardLeninMillardHaywardEduardShepardLenordGerardLenLennixWardEdgardRashardKennardLennisLenwood

Names with a curve like Lenard

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lenard, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

WinfredWiltonElroyFreemanHiltonMervinHershelCarmenBudLacyVernWeldon

Sibling names for Lenard

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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