Leni
Leni reached its high-water mark in 2023 at number 1,195, and has been recorded 1,962 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,173rd. About 1,900 Lenis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Leni boys named Leni
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,962
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 5
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 1,195th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,173rd
- First recorded
- 1938
- Girls / boys
- 1,935 / 27
How old the living Lenis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,962 babies given the name since 1938, about 1,900 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 160 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lenis
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003)German filmmaker, photographer, actress, and nazi propagandist
- Leni Robredo (born 1965)Filipino politician
- Leni Junker (1905–1997)German sprinter
- Leni Schmidt (1906–1985)German sprinter
- Leni Larsen Kaurin (born 1981)Norwegian footballer
- Leni Lohmar (1914–2006)swimmer
People named Leni with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Leni is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Leni is most concentrated in North Dakota (8.6×), Minnesota (5.4×), Wisconsin (2.0×), New York (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular girls’ names the year Leni peaked:
Leni elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Leni +1 spelling | 2,130 | 416th |
| Austria girls | Leni | 963 | 48th |
| Switzerland girls | Leni +1 spelling | 839 | 95th |
| England and Wales girls | Leni | 629 | 425th |
| Belgium girls | Leni | 454 | 381st |
| Italy girls | Leni | 344 | — |
| Norway girls | Leni | 235 | 312th |
| France girls | Leni +1 spelling | 180 | 2,163rd |
| Switzerland boys | Leni | 70 | 695th |
| England and Wales boys | Leni | 43 | 2,443rd |
| Belgium boys | Léni +1 spelling | 38 | 1,012th |
| Ireland girls | Leni | 35 | 412th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Leni | 21 | 259th |
| Scotland girls | Leni | 21 | 474th |
| Poland girls | Leni | 7 birth registrations | 599th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Leni: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Leni | 804 | 0.065% | 75th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Leni | 12 | 0.001% | 854th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Léni | 2 | 0.000% | 1,521st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Leni | 57 | 0.013% | 254th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Leni | 20 | 0.005% | 484th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Léni | 6 | 0.001% | 631st |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Leni | 7 | 0.011% | 104th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Leni | 1 | 0.002% | 182nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Leni is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.10% of children were given it – 54 of them.
Leni: rank by region
In 2025, Leni was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Leni | 656 | 7 |
In 2024, Leni was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Leni | 8 | 24 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Leni appears in the lists for Province of Liège (167th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Leni by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 662 | 21st |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Leni among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Leni | 234 | 261 |
| Finland boys | Leni | 22 | 31 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Leni against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.