Lenny — #1370 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lenny

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,170 babies named Lenny between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lenny currently holds the #1370 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 199 babies received it in a single year. Lenny is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 675 additional births since 1943.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lenny performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 1,514 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Lenny shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,426 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lenny in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lenny 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 8,170 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.