Lenard
Lenard was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,128 among boys’ names; 10,004 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,020 Americans named Lenard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 44 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lenard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lenard?
#13,128 among boys’ names, 2025
Lenard fell from #5,421 in 2015 to #13,128 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 2.9 per million.
204 babies in 1925, the peak
Lenard peaked in 1925, when 204 boys were given it, #420 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,128 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,081 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,495 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,934 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,850 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,635 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,554 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,361 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,562 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 17 | #5,421 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #6,180 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,313 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,615 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,841 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,381 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,978 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,989 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,447 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,975 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,998 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,389 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,210 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,732 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,599 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,306 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,239 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,248 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,114 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,069 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,652 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,594 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,233 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 51 | #1,684 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 36 | #2,072 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,823 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 43 | #1,776 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,533 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 39 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 44 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,463 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,162 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,074 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,200 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 43 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,231 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,172 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 73 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 76 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 80 | #899 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 88 | #870 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 84 | #883 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 79 | #864 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 74 | #847 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 66 | #890 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 98 | #749 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 100 | #741 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 91 | #791 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 106 | #754 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 94 | #789 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 100 | #771 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 130 | #689 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 91 | #803 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 113 | #709 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 136 | #655 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 124 | #676 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 121 | #664 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 135 | #634 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 128 | #632 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 107 | #671 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 122 | #641 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 129 | #602 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 130 | #598 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 119 | #621 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 126 | #609 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 112 | #610 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 106 | #588 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 117 | #568 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 137 | #538 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 118 | #567 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 130 | #523 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 129 | #508 | 0.11 |
| 1939 | 112 | #540 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 139 | #492 | 0.13 |
| 1937 | 136 | #492 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 137 | #484 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 136 | #488 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 123 | #528 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 137 | #479 | 0.14 |
| 1932 | 188 | #410 | 0.18 |
| 1931 | 145 | #472 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 167 | #458 | 0.15 |
| 1929 | 179 | #443 | 0.17 |
| 1928 | 193 | #430 | 0.17 |
| 1927 | 195 | #433 | 0.17 |
| 1926 | 186 | #445 | 0.17 |
| 1925 | 204 | #420 | 0.18 |
| 1924 | 200 | #434 | 0.18 |
| 1923 | 200 | #428 | 0.18 |
| 1922 | 196 | #431 | 0.18 |
| 1921 | 184 | #454 | 0.17 |
| 1920 | 201 | #421 | 0.19 |
| 1919 | 182 | #440 | 0.19 |
| 1918 | 135 | #516 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 141 | #485 | 0.15 |
| 1916 | 118 | #525 | 0.13 |
| 1915 | 107 | #539 | 0.13 |
| 1914 | 86 | #533 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 57 | #584 | 0.11 |
| 1912 | 56 | #537 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 38 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1910 | 32 | #495 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 22 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 22 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 30 | #424 | 0.20 |
| 1906 | 26 | #437 | 0.20 |
| 1905 | 25 | #442 | 0.19 |
| 1904 | 12 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 23 | #423 | 0.19 |
| 1902 | 19 | #497 | 0.15 |
| 1901 | 14 | #550 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 20 | #544 | 0.13 |
| 1899 | 14 | #533 | 0.13 |
| 1898 | 12 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 14 | #568 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 13 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 20 | #447 | 0.17 |
| 1894 | 13 | #584 | 0.11 |
| 1893 | 8 | #803 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 9 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 9 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 6 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 10 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 9 | #657 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 9 | #670 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 16 | #472 | 0.15 |
| 1884 | 10 | #642 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 7 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 12 | #563 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 14 | #474 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 8 | #716 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lenard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lenard has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 145 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lenard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lenard, and how old are they?
4,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 40% of the 10,004 Americans ever recorded as Lenard. The median Lenard alive today is 60 years old; half are between 44 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 3,949 people named Lenard (25 women and girls, 3,924 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,651 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 443 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,450 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,010 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 679 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 301 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 130 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lenard born?
The states with the most babies named Lenard are Texas, Illinois and Georgia, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 682 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 447 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 419 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 419 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Louisiana | 377 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 358 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 349 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arkansas | 319 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 265 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 263 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Lenard is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lenard is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lenard with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 310,375 babies since 1880, Lenard is the second most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 448 babies (1.1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lenard
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lenard and names like it
- Compare Lenard and LeonardBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLenard peaked in 1925.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lenard since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Lenard.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lenard alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.