Lennie

Where Lennie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Lennie.

  • Vowel-ended
Lennie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls, with 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #349
    32 babies named Lennie, its best rank.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #657.
  4. 1919
    Lennie Tristano born
    American jazz pianist and composer
  5. 1965
    Lennie James born
    British actor
  6. 2015
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Lennie James · British actor, born 1965
  • Lennie Tristano · American jazz pianist and composer, 1919–1978
  • Lennie Niehaus · American saxophonist and composer, 1929–2020
  • Lennie Hayton · American composer and conductor, 1908–1971
  • Lennie Kristensen · Danish bicycle racer, born 1968, born 1968

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.