Lenny

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lenny: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lenny: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #140, and it stood at #223 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
51times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#140highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2015–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2015	#5730
2021	#4634
2022	#4645
2024	#3695

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #142 among boys in England and Wales, #222 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #339 among boys in Northern Ireland, #404 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1765 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #140 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #223 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Lenny appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 5,219 births with the name.

Lenny across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lenny's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#140 (2023)	#142 (2024)	29 of 29	5,219 (1996–2024)	382 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#611 (2010)	#222 (2024)	#223 (2025)	12 of 16	124 (2010–2025)	21 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#5730 (2015)	#3695 (2024)	#3695 (2024)	4 of 10	17 (2015–2024)	6 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#363 (2017)	#334 (2020)	#339 (2024)	5 of 8	18 (2017–2024)	4 (2017)

Lenny by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lenny in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	44	4 of 10	11
2000s	755	10 of 10	76
2010s	2,599	10 of 10	260
2020sbusiest	1,821	5 of 10	364

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 364 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 89, from 271 to 360.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lenny appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #140 in England and Wales in 2023.

Lenny's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#142	382	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#140	373	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#153	349	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#153	373	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#154	344	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#151	369	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#152	372	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#158	360	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#207	271	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#222	253	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#213	266	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#248	201	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#269	174	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#265	180	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#292	153	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#319	125	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#298	138	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#360	102	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#360	95	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#320	100	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#443	61	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#469	52	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#611	32	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#786	22	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#651	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#906	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#334	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#363	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#223	21	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	20	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#319	13	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#349	12	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#279	16	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#352	11	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#471	7	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#547	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#615	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#428	8	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#404	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #140, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 382 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cayden · #140, 26y
Safa · #140, 30y
Lorenzo · #139, 31y
Rohan · #139, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Avery · #140, 24y
Safa · #140, 30y
Etta · #141, 24y
Tamzin · #139, 26y

Lenny was ranked #140 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lenny and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lenny without appearing here.

Lenny moved ahead of

Robyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1765 and #1765 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #651 and #3036.
Leif Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1765 and #1591 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #906 and #2943.
Anders Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #1761 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #958 and #2074.
Mathias Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1765 and #1337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1761 and #2859.

Moved ahead of Lenny

Theodore Compare
In 2011 they stood at #611 and #720 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #718 and #310.
Beau Compare
In 2011 they stood at #611 and #720 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2012 that had become #718 and #457.
Albie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #349 and #429 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #319 and #243.
Hudson Compare
In 2014 they stood at #213 and #234 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #222 and #176.

Moved the opposite way to Lenny

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lenny went from #1765 to #142 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lenny went from #1765 to #142 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lenny went from #1765 to #142 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lenny went from #1765 to #142 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Lenny

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lenny went from #1765 to #142 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lenny went from #1765 to #142 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lenny went from #1765 to #142 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lenny went from #1765 to #142 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #140 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lenny

Lenny at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lenny across 4 official records

Lenny by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Lenny across 4 official records

Lenny by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Lenny and the names beside it

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