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Lene

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lene has been given to 277 babies in the U.S. since 1949. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1967, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Lene, 2013

1 in 729,000

Lene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lene: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lene means

Lene is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lene is used in Danish and Norwegian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 277 girls were recorded with the name Lene between 1949 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1967; its best national rank was #3,758 in 1967.

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 Lene?

Lene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lene was born before 1980 — so the typical Lene is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
272
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Lene 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1967 (13)
Years since peak
58
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,758
1967

Spellings of Lene

Lene is not the most common spelling — Jane is, with 10.5% against Lene's <0.01%.

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.

Lene around the world

Where Lene 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
    2000–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • Norway
    1880–2021
    #460
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1972–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Lene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,758
1967
Peak year
1967
13 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
277
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lene

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

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Sibling names for Lene

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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