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Lenwood

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lenwood has been given to 2,423 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 60 recorded.

Babies named Lenwood, 2004

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lenwood: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lenwood means

Lenwood is a given name.

The naming story behind Lenwood

Wikidata records Lenwood as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q101103775, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,423 boys were recorded with the name Lenwood between 1892 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1949; its best national rank was #895 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.

How common is Lenwood?

Lenwood had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lenwood 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 2004 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 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lenwood. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lenwoods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lenwood was born before 1943 — so the typical Lenwood is around 82 today.

Median birth year
1943
About 82 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
17.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
946
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1940s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (422).

Is Lenwood 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 1949 (60)
Years since peak
76
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#895
1949

Spellings of Lenwood

Lenwood is not the most common spelling — Elwood is, with 46.0% against Lenwood's 5.4%.

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 Lenwood is used

Across 1910–2025, Lenwood was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 54,193 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 8,333
  2. 2Virginia1 in 16,667
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Maryland1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Lenwood has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lenwood 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
#895
1949
Peak year
1949
60 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
2,423
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lenwood

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

LennieLenoxLeninLennonLennardLenardHaywoodLenordLennixLendellLennoxLenoardDurwoodNorwoodLennisEllwoodLennyLenninLennartLynwoodMahmoodLenwardLentonGlenwood

Names with a curve like Lenwood

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

HarrellHeywardLintonWaymanDeaneAuthurCurleyWymanWeltonEzellCleophusHilary

Sibling names for Lenwood

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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