Lenette
Lenette was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 1,013 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lenette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lenette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,605, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1960, the peak
Lenette peaked in 1960, when 37 girls were given it, #1,871 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #16,605 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,000 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,821 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,114 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,488 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,264 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,730 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,133 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,170 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,841 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 9 | #8,912 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,239 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,444 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,561 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,898 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,276 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,391 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,475 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,166 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,597 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,737 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,330 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,187 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,800 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,829 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,860 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,950 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,296 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,557 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,870 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,619 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,186 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,189 | 18.9 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,673 | 13.3 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,899 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,970 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,962 | 19.5 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,585 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,967 | 17.8 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,178 | 14.9 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,871 | 18.3 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,129 | 14.3 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,142 | 13.9 |
| 1957 | 30 | #2,009 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,778 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,376 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,156 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,648 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,990 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,209 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,333 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,579 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,650 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,359 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,136 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,843 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,242 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,457 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,103 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,371 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,036 | 5.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,562 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,774 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,928 | 4.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,539 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lenette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lenette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lenette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lenette, and how old are they?
An estimated 851 Americans named Lenette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 49 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 826 people named Lenette (820 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,367 babies since 1880, Lenette is the most given (43% of them).
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 Lenette
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 Lenette and names like it
- Compare Lenette and LenettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLenette peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lenette since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Lenette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lenette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.