Leno
Leno was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,129 among boys’ names; 662 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leno by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leno?
#13,129 among boys’ names, 2025
Leno entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,129 in 2025.
29 babies in 1921, the peak
Leno peaked in 1921, when 29 boys were given it, #1,403 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,129 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,434 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,372 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,418 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,573 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,591 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,335 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,546 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,253 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,350 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,698 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,475 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,675 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,576 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,212 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,539 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,145 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,030 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,555 | 3.2 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,841 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,781 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,875 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,768 | 4.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,332 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,343 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,486 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,382 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,484 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,745 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,276 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,134 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,232 | 3.7 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,717 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,969 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,251 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,371 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,180 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,708 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,109 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,850 | 3.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,319 | 5.2 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,063 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,036 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,196 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,972 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,556 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,270 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,245 | 11.8 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,866 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,468 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,674 | 19.5 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,146 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,975 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,705 | 19.4 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,913 | 16.4 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,456 | 24.8 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,403 | 26.3 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,850 | 17.9 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,025 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,798 | 18.7 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,674 | 21.6 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,734 | 20.2 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,535 | 24.7 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,290 | 33.6 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,412 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,440 | 14.0 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,382 | 36.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Leno a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Leno has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Leno: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leno, and how old are they?
An estimated 220 Americans named Leno and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 14 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 513 people named Leno (25 women and girls, 488 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 9,800 babies since 1880, Leno is the second most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 194 babies (2.6%), again the second most given.
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 Leno
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 Leno and names like it
- Compare Leno and LennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLeno peaked in 1921.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Leno since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Leno.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Leno alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.