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Lennard

Gender
Boy
Say it
LEN-erd
Origin
Germanic
UK rank, 2025
#2,202 for boys

Lennard is a boys' name of Germanic origin, meaning “brave as a lion”. In 2025 it ranked 2,202nd for boys in the UK (11 babies).

What does Lennard mean?

Germanic: spelling of Lenard, itself a spelling of Leonard

“brave as a lion”

A spelling of Leonard, from Germanic elements meaning lion and hardy or brave.

Meaning borrowed from Lenard.

Is Lennard a girl's or a boy's name?

Lennard is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lennard in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#2,202among boys
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 27,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadymuch the same
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 11 boys in the UK were named Lennard, making it the 2,202nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,562nd. Its busiest year was 2017, with 14 boys.

2025 had more boys named Lennard than any year since 2018.

Half of all the boys named Lennard in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 211 boys in the UK were given Lennard or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #259, up from #2,202 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 2,130th in England and Wales.

2000Busiest: 14 in 20172025
Lennard in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202511#2,202
20246#3,335
20237#2,965
20226#3,219
20217#2,886
20208#2,562
20195#3,597
201811#2,088
201714#1,822
20165#3,655
201511#2,127
20146#3,125
20136#3,096
20125#3,572
20118#2,503
20104#4,026
20090–
20085#3,305
20075#3,231
20061#5,377
20050–
20048#1,983
20036#2,283
20020–
20013#3,255
20003#3,146

How popular is Lennard in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1949, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 1913.

Half of all the boys named Lennard in the US since 1880 were born between 1944 and 1981, the years shaded on the chart below.

1913Busiest: 25 in 19492024
Lennard in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20248#8,982
20230–
20227#9,815
20215#12,141
20200–
20196#10,797
20186#10,754
20170–
20166#10,739
201510#7,486
20145#12,102
20135#12,129
20128#8,858
20110–
20106#10,759
20096#10,989
20086#11,030
20070–
20060–
20058#8,292
20046#9,941
20039#7,238
20027#8,449
20016#9,236
20005#10,341
19998#7,132
19987#7,553
19978#6,612
19966#7,964
199510#5,495
199411#5,103
199311#4,995
19926#7,414
19918#5,934
199010#4,986
19899#5,158
198813#3,700
19878#4,962
19868#4,848
198514#3,213
19845#6,311
198313#3,229
19826#5,617
198111#3,599
198011#3,614
197911#3,567
19787#4,552
197712#3,201
197619#2,328
197512#3,076
197412#2,944
197314#2,604
197212#2,817
197117#2,278
197013#2,620
196915#2,216
196818#1,893
196722#1,651
196617#1,890
196512#2,364
196420#1,792
196312#2,413
196215#2,116
196120#1,822
196013#2,313
195923#1,664
195824#1,592
195717#1,951
195620#1,764
195521#1,681
195411#2,448
195324#1,550
195211#2,374
195115#1,971
195015#1,940
194925#1,461
194814#2,026
194717#1,849
194611#2,270
194512#2,008
194419#1,573
194310#2,404
19428#2,711
19418#2,655
19409#2,478
19399#2,449
193810#2,326
193714#1,913
193611#2,184
193510#2,396
19347#2,972
193313#1,997
193215#1,922
19317#3,094
19300–
19296#3,557
19286#3,695
192713#2,298
19268#3,137
19256#3,739
192417#1,964
19237#3,465
19227#3,530
192113#2,375
19205#4,284
191911#2,510
19187#3,367
19177#3,216
19168#2,925
19156#3,391
19147#2,650
19135#2,820

Nicknames for Lennard

Names like Lennard

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Lennard

Names related to Lennard

More Germanic names

Every Germanic name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Lennard: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lennard, updated 20 October 2026.