Leni

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Leni: Recorded since 1949, with a gap of 11 years, its highest recorded position is #288, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
80times a registrar ranked it
77years from first to last
#288highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Leni's record

Absent from every published list for 11 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#3725
2005	#2247
2006	#1748
2007	#2895
2008	#1815
2009	#1596
2010	#1389
2011	#2150
2012	#1720
2013	#1587
2014	#1501
2015	#1549
2016	#1327
2017	#1628
2018	#1272
2019	#1703
2020	#1200
2021	#860
2022	#857
2023	#425
2024	#478

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 girls in Norway in 39 of the 75 years from 1949 to 2023.

In 2024: #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, #412 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #478 among girls in England and Wales, #638 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1949–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1949
First recorded at #371 among girls in Norway in 1949 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded2021–2024
Highest recorded position: #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2021–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Leni appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 39 years beginning in 1949, and has registered 235 births with the name.

Leni across 5 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.

Leni'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
Norway · Girls	#371 (1949)	#321 (2014)	#389 (2023)	39 of 75	235 (1949–2023)	14 (2014)
England and Wales · Girls	#3725 (2004)	#425 (2023)	#478 (2024)	21 of 21	551 (2004–2024)	96 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#3589 (2007)	#2443 (2024)	#2443 (2024)	8 of 18	38 (2007–2024)	9 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#747 (2013)	#412 (2024)	#718 (2025)	8 of 13	35 (2013–2025)	9 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#298 (2021)	#288 (2024)	#288 (2024)	3 of 4	15 (2021–2024)	5 (2021)

Leni by decade in Norway · Girls

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 Leni in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	5	1 of 10	5
1960s	48	8 of 10	6
1970s	28	4 of 10	7
1980s	22	4 of 10	6
1990s	19	4 of 10	5
2000s	40	7 of 10	6
2010sbusiest	57	8 of 10	7
2020s	16	3 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Leni 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 5 regions, from 1949 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #288 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Leni'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	#478	85	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#425	96	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#857	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#860	41	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1200	27	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1703	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1628	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1327	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1549	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1587	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1389	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#389	8	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#492	4	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#483	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#396	8	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#522	4	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#498	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#485	6	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#321	14	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#474	7	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#515	6	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#493	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#568	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#448	8	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#610	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#446	8	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#533	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#512	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#611	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#622	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#560	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#649	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#558	6	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#673	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#618	5	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#528	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#536	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#504	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#609	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#378	9	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#384	9	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#457	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#468	6	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#462	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#481	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#353	9	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#519	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#413	6	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#403	6	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#371	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#412	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
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 5 registrars between 1949 and 2025, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #288, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 96 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 11 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 75 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.

Lenard · #2921, 12y
Lene · #4, 73y
Lenka · #905, 20y
Lenna · #2458, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Diego · #279, 45y
Dani · #306, 46y
Omer · #323, 42y
Bruno · #243, 47y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Andres · #288, 62y
Torkild · #288, 34y
Elen · #287, 65y
Tarald · #287, 39y

Leni was ranked #288 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Leni 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 Leni without appearing here.

Leni moved ahead of

Therese Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2895 and #2895 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1815 and #5545.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1720 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1587 and #4739.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #5119.
Jeanette Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3725 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2247 and #4798.

Moved ahead of Leni

Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3865 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #3830 and #1398.
Matheo Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3589 and #4333 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #3865 and #2629.
Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1272 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1703 and #1063.
Sarah Compare
In 1971 they stood at #378 and #460 in Norway · Girls; by 1972 that had become #609 and #254.

Moved the opposite way to Leni

Abigail Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leni went from #3725 to #478 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leni went from #3725 to #478 while Aimee went from #47 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leni went from #3725 to #478 while Aisling went from #866 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Leni went from #3725 to #478 while Alex went from #199 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Leni

Grethe Compare
Between 1949 and 2004 in Norway · Girls, Leni went from #371 to #533 and Grethe from #25 to #573.
Torill Compare
Between 1949 and 2004 in Norway · Girls, Leni went from #371 to #533 and Torill from #19 to #599.
Gerd Compare
Between 1949 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Leni went from #371 to #611 and Gerd from #10 to #593.
Susan Compare
Between 1961 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Leni went from #403 to #611 and Susan from #172 to #527.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 5 regions, from 1949 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #288 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Leni

Leni at a glance

What stands out in Leni's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Leni across 5 official records

Leni by decade in Norway · Girls

Leni appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Leni and the names beside it

Leni moved ahead of

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Leni at a glance

What stands out in Leni's record

Leni across 5 official records

Leni by decade in Norway · Girls

Leni appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Leni

Leni and the names beside it

Leni moved ahead of

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