girls:
7 births since 1928
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
10k births since 1880
#1170 (74th percentile)
overall:
10k births since 1880
#2672 (65th percentile)
The name Lenard is the #2,672 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,989 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,170 (74.5% percentile) for all time with 9,982 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1928.
Lenard has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1928 for girls). Birth data for Lenard is available in 143 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (143 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lenard has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lenard reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 33.6% percentile (ranked #363) with 177 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 189 births per million (ranked 10.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Lenard reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #604) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1928.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lenard".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lenard", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 4 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Leonard" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Leonard..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lenard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.4% confident that Lenard is pronounced as LEH-nerd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEH-nahrd, at 13.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L EH1 N ER0 D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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