Lennie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: probably a habitational name from Lenzie near ^kintilloch (formerly pronounced ‘Lenyie’), or from Leny in the parish of Callander in Perthshire
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lɛɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lennie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 98K
- USUnited States1 in 117K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Lenzienear(measured from records)
- Lenyin(measured from records)
probably a habitational name from Lenzie near ^kintilloch (formerly pronounced ‘Lenyie’), or from Leny in the parish of Callander in Perthshire. The latter is named in Gaelic with Idnaigh ‘damp meadow’ + the locative suffix -ach.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lennie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Lennie | 6 |
| PH Philippines | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Lennie | 61 |
| US United States | 2,841 | 1 in 117K | 1.5K | Lennie | 307 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 5 | Lennie | 127 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Lennie | 19 |
| SE Sweden | 437 | 1 in 23K | 437 | Lennie | 29 |
| SG Singapore | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Lennie | 19 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Lennie | 17 |
| GY Guyana | 18 | 1 in 42K | 18 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lennie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, diminutive of Leonard or Lennox
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In Hungarian, third-person singular of lenni
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lennie Haytonb. 1908USAmerican composer and conductor (1908-1971)
- Lennie Tristanob. 1919USAmerican jazz pianist and composer (1919–1978)
- Lennie Mayneb. 1927AUAustralian television director
- Lennie Bushb. 1927GBBritish musician (1927–2004)
- Lennie Niehausb. 1929USAmerican saxophonist and composer (1929–2020)
- Lennie McBrowneb. 1933USAmerican musician
- Lennie Weinribb. 1935USAmerican actor, animator, composer, musician and singer
- Lennie Lawrenceb. 1947GBEnglish football manager (born 1947)
- Lennie Mooreb. 1961USAmerican composer, conductor and music orchestrator
- Lennie Jamesb. 1965GBBritish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #5,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #5,846 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 437 | #3,046 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 273 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 69 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 18 | #576 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 5 | #535 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 3 | #395 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lennie a male or female name?
- Lennie is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Lennie?
- In the etymology graph, Leonardo, Lenny and Len are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Leonard.
- What does the name Lennie mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a habitational name from Lenzie near ^kintilloch (formerly pronounced ‘Lenyie’), or from Leny in the parish of Callander in Perthshire. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lennie?
- A machine transcription gives /lɛɲi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lennie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Lennie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lennie.
- How common is the name Lennie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,841 people named Lennie in 2020, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lennieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lennie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.