Lennard
Lennard was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,150 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lennard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lennard mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Lennard is “a male given name, a less common variant of Lennart”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lennard?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,507, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1949, the peak
Lennard peaked in 1949, when 25 boys were given it, #1,483 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,507 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,417 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,288 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,590 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,585 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,587 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,818 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,252 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,269 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,366 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #11,619 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,877 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,970 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,773 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,799 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,595 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,009 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,029 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,460 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,566 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,093 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,000 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,552 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,741 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,297 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,217 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,027 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,279 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,223 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,418 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,806 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,242 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,134 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,319 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,922 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,339 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,085 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,754 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,753 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,720 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,836 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,304 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,384 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,165 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,055 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,663 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,932 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,335 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,690 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,266 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,932 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,687 | 12.6 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,933 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,422 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 20 | #1,827 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,482 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,152 | 7.3 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,852 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,383 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,691 | 10.8 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,621 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,993 | 7.9 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,794 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,712 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,543 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 24 | #1,568 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,444 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,015 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,982 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,483 | 14.1 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,072 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,887 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,347 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,074 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,610 | 13.9 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,483 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,830 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,782 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,592 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,548 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,413 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,956 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,243 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,472 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,158 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,053 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,966 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,269 | 6.7 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,774 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,953 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,358 | 11.5 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,275 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,986 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,012 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,666 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,714 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,446 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,673 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,597 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,554 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,417 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,063 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,652 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,799 | 10.7 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,066 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lennard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lennard has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lennard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lennard, and how old are they?
An estimated 740 Americans named Lennard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 34 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 808 people named Lennard (5 women and girls, 803 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 790 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 310,375 babies since 1880, Lennard is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 448 babies recorded by SSA was a Lennard (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lennard
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 Lennard and names like it
- Compare Lennard and LeonardBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLennard peaked in 1949.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lennard since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Lennard: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Lennard.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lennard alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.