Lennin
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- LEN-in
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Lennin is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Lennin mean?
Spelling of Lenin; from the pseudonym of Vladimir Lenin, perhaps after the Lena River
Taken from Lenin, the pseudonym of the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ulyanov, and used as a first name in Latin America and India.
Meaning borrowed from Lenin.
Is Lennin a girl's or a boy's name?
Lennin is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lennin in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,906among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 210,000 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, 8 boys in the US were named Lennin, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the boys named Lennin in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 365 boys in the US were given Lennin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #686, up from #8,906 for this spelling alone.
Lennin in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,048 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,486 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,585 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,432 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,782 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,455 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,220 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,132 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,551 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,515 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,928 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
| 1996 | 6 | #7,964 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,785 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,809 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,662 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,466 |
Names like Lennin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden Brayden Aiden Declan Ronan Deacon Lachlan Raiden Finnegan Finn Odin Kian
Other spellings of Lennin
Names related to Lennin
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, “Lennin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lennin, updated 20 October 2026.