Lenis — boys' name

What the Data Says About Lenis

The Social Security Administration has registered 170 babies named Lenis between 1917 and 1972, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lenis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1972. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Lenis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 55 additional births since 1928.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lenis performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 44 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Lenis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lenis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lenis 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 170 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.