Lenita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lenita

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,178 babies named Lenita between 1919 and 2009, spanning 91 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lenita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lenita performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 262 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Lenita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Lenita in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lenita 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 1,178 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.