Leny
Leny was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 103 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Leny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Leny?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,420, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2006, the peak
Leny peaked in 2006, when 14 babies were given it (8 boys, #9,233 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,571 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,572 | 7 | #10,420 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 6 | #11,587 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,255 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,385 | 6 | #11,699 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #11,620 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,527 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 7 | #10,577 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 7 | #10,439 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,273 | 8 | #9,233 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #12,566 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #12,003 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,754 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,227 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Leny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 103 Americans recorded as Leny, 32% are girls and 68% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Leny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Leny, and how old are they?
An estimated 102 Americans named Leny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 849 people named Leny (612 women and girls, 237 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 84 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10.1 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).
How common is the spelling Leny?
Leny is a less common spelling of Lenny: SSA has recorded 103 Leny and 9,035 Lenny since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 9,800 babies since 1880, Leny is the third most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 194 babies recorded by SSA was a Leny (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 Leny
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 Leny and names like it
- Compare Leny and LennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLeny peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Leny.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Leny alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.