girls:
537 births since 1898
#5179 (9th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1912
#3390 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1898
#5997 (22nd percentile)
The name Lennis is the #5,997 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,754 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 22.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,390 (26.0% percentile) for all time with 1,217 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,179 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 537 births since 1898.
Lennis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Lennis is available in 83 out of the 116 years between 1898 and 2013 (78 years for boys and 56 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 Lennis has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (69.4% of all recorded births). In 2013, 100.0% of babies named Lennis were boys. Interestingly, until around 1916, the name was more popular for girls (68.6% girls from 1898 to 1915), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (71.3% boys from 1916 to 2013).
For boys, Lennis reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #572) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 26 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
For girls, Lennis reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #645) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 33 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lennis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lennis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Lennis is pronounced as LEH-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEH-nees, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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