Lenette — girls' name
1,013 babies named Lenette in U.S. Social Security records since 1921, with the highest year being 1960. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Lenette was born in this single decade.
37 babies were named Lenette in 1960 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lenette
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,013 babies named Lenette between 1921 and 2008, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lenette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 37 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lenette performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 321 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Lenette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 57 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lenette in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lenette in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,013 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Lenette at a glance
Last recorded 2008Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lenette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–1921
- Peak year (1960)
- 37
- Annual births at peak — across 88 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2008.
1,013 total births across 88 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1960 with 37 births in a single year.
Lenette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 321 births that decade — 32% of Lenette's all-time total
Lenette decade highlights
- Peak decade 321 births
- Runner-up 206 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Lenette's strongest decade
321 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Lenette by state
Where Lenette concentrates geographically — total births since 1921
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 57 | 5.6% |
| #2 | New York | | 10 | 1.0% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 7 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.5% |
57 of 1,013 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 5.6% of nationwide
- New York 1.0% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.7% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1921–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.