girls:
4.7k births since 1880
#2474 (57th percentile)
boys:
2.9k births since 1882
#2344 (49th percentile)
overall:
7.6k births since 1880
#3097 (60th percentile)
The name Lennie is the #3,097 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,590 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 60.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,474 (56.7% percentile) for all time with 4,714 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,344 (48.9% percentile) for all time with 2,876 births since 1882.
Lennie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1882 for boys). Birth data for Lennie is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (126 years for boys and 124 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 Lennie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (62.1% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Lennie were girls.
For girls, Lennie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 20.8% percentile (ranked #443) with 120 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 249 births per million (ranked 15.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lennie ranks #886 for girls (6.4% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 15.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lennie reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 11.7% percentile (ranked #581) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 77 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lennie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lennie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lennie is pronounced as LEH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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