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Lenna

#1,761 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Lennart

Lenna has been given to 4,373 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,761 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 131 recorded.

Babies named Lenna, 2025

1 in 28,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lenna: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Lennart

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lenna means

Lenna is a feminine form of Lennart.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lennart.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,373 girls were recorded with the name Lenna between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 131 in 2024; its best national rank was #337 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,777 in 2020 to #1,761 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,568 in 2015 to #1,761 in 2025.

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.

How common is Lenna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,800
115 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,761
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,983 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lenna 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 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,983 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lenna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lennas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lenna was born before 1951 — so the typical Lenna is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
15.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,242
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Choose a decade

2020s — 15.1% of all recorded uses (660).

Is Lenna 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
−156
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+16
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,807
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.8%
Peak was 2024 (131)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#337
1880

Spellings of Lenna

Lenna is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 23.0% against Lenna's 0.07%.

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 Lenna is used

Across 2016–2025, Lenna was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 23,712 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 4,762
  2. 2Utah1 in 10,000
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 12,500
  4. 4Ohio1 in 16,667
  5. 5California1 in 20,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 20,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 25,000

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.

Lenna around the world

Where Lenna 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
    2005–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1992–2025
    #1,463
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #856
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1963–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lenna

People whose public names include Lenna, 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.

Lenna in other languages

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

LenaLennia

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

Lenna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,761
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 16
Best rank ever
#337
1880
Peak year
2024
131 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,373
Count in 2025
115

Names similar to Lenna

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

LennieLennoxJonnaLeniMinnaLennyLennonLannaJiannaVannaTyannaRiannaDionnaLyannaDeonnaLenoxLynnaKeannaIyannaReannaRennaBrynnaCiennaKenna

Names with a curve like Lenna

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

IraAdeliaAraDeltaLaviniaMaidaOdeliaCarlotaBeaValentineZoraLeonie

Sibling names for Lenna

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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