Lennex
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- LEN-iks
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #6,140 for boys
Lennex is a name of Scottish origin, meaning “place of elms”. In 2025 it ranked 6,140th for boys in the US (14 babies).
What does Lennex mean?
Scottish: variant of Lennox, a Scottish district and surname
“place of elms”
A variant of Lennox, from the Scottish district called Leamhnachd in Gaelic, probably named for its elm trees.
Is Lennex a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Lennex has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 14 boys in the US.
How popular is Lennex in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,140among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 120,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 14 boys in the US were named Lennex, making it the 6,140th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2009.
2025 had more boys named Lennex than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Lennex in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,428 boys in the US were given Lennex or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #263, up from #6,140 for this spelling alone.
Lennex in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,140 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
Nicknames for Lennex
Names like Lennex
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lachlan Finley Cassian Callan Legend Kyaire Knox Sevyn Ledger Kyrie Raiden Kayden
Other spellings of Lennex
Names related to Lennex
More Scottish names
Isla Logan Arabella Cameron Bonnie Paisley Brody Carson Maxwell Brodie Finlay Blair Skye Dallas Lochlan Reid
Sources
Figures from 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, “Lennex: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lennex, updated 20 October 2026.