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Lennard

Boys' name

Variant of Leonard

Lennard has been given to 1,150 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1949, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Lennard, 2024

1 in 418,000

Lennard over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lennard: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Leonard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lennard means

Lennard is a variant of Leonard.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lennard is used in Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɛ.nɑrt/ for Lennard.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Lennard is used in English and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leonard and Lennart.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,150 boys were recorded with the name Lennard between 1913 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1949; its best national rank was #1,483 in 1949.

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 Lennard?

Lennard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lennard 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lennard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lennards were born

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

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
15.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
782
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Choose a decade

1950s — 15.7% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Lennard 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1949 (25)
Years since peak
76
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,483
1949

Spellings of Lennard

Lennard is not the most common spelling — Leonard is, with 47.6% against Lennard's 0.19%.

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 Lennard is used

Across 1910–2025, Lennard was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,024,393 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —

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. Lennard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lennard around the world

Where Lennard 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
    2000–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2013
    #2,635
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Lennard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,483
1949
Peak year
1949
25 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,150
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lennard

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

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Sibling names for Lennard

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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