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Lenita

Girls' name

Blend of Leena and Anita

Lenita has been given to 1,178 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1960, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Lenita, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lenita: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Leena and Anita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lenita means

Lenita is a blend of Leena and Anita.

Origin, language, and formation

Lenita is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leena and Anita.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Lenita is pronounced /ˈlenitɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,178 girls were recorded with the name Lenita between 1919 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1960; its best national rank was #1,752 in 1954.

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 Lenita?

Lenita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lenita 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lenita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lenitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lenita was born before 1961 — so the typical Lenita is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
884
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (262).

Is Lenita 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 1960 (38)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,752
1954

Spellings of Lenita

Lenita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 28.4% against Lenita's 0.16%.

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 Lenita is used

Across 1910–2025, Lenita was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,087,188 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Mississippi1 in —
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Lenita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lenita around the world

Where Lenita 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.

  • France
    1993–2017
    #7,149
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1952–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lenita 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,752
1954
Peak year
1960
38 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
1,178
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lenita

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

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Sibling names for Lenita

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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