Lenna

Where Lenna comes from

Lenna hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #333 among girls with 23 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1970
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,413.
  3. 1977
    Lenna Yeung born
    Hong Kong actress
  4. 1985
    Lenna Kuurmaa born
    Estonian singer-songwriter and actress
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lenna Kuurmaa · Estonian singer-songwriter and actress, born 1985
  • Lenna Yeung · Hong Kong actress, born 1977
  • Lenna Lowe Yost · American suffragist, 1878–1972
  • Lenna Gunning-Williams · English association football player, born 2005
  • Lenna F. Cooper · American vegetarian nutritionist and dietician, 1875–1961

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.