girls:
55 births since 1928
#5661 (1st percentile)
boys:
170 births since 1917
#4416 (4th percentile)
overall:
225 births since 1917
#7514 (3rd percentile)
The name Lenis is the #7,514 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 225 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 2.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,416 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 170 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #5,661 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1928.
Lenis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1928 for girls). Birth data for Lenis is available in 31 out of the 88 years between 1917 and 2004 (26 years for boys and 9 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 Lenis has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2004, 0.0% of babies named Lenis were boys.
For boys, Lenis reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #524) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1972.
For girls, Lenis reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #589) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lenis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lenis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Lenis is pronounced as LEH-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-nuhs, at 16.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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