Lenyx
- Gender
- Unisex
- Say it
- LEN-iks
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #3,657 for boys
Lenyx is a name of Scottish origin, meaning “place of elms”. In 2025 it ranked 3,657th for boys in the US (30 babies).
What does Lenyx mean?
Scottish: modern spelling of Lennox, a Scottish place name
“place of elms”
A modern spelling of Lennox, the name of a historic Scottish district and earldom.
Is Lenyx a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Lenyx has been given to both girls and boys. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls and 30 boys in the US.
How popular is Lenyx in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,657th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 30 about 1 in 57,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 117% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 30 boys in the US were named Lenyx, making it the 3,657th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,536th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 44 boys. It first appears in the records in 2011. 15 girls were also named Lenyx in 2025 (7,131st for girls).
Half of all the boys named Lenyx in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,428 boys in the US were given Lenyx or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #263, up from #3,657 for this spelling alone.
In 2025, 33% of the babies named Lenyx in the US were girls.
Lenyx in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,657 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,873 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,115 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,531 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,776 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,536 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,808 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,536 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
Nicknames for Lenyx
Names like Lenyx
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Onyx, Ledger, Knox, Kylo, Hendrix, Legend, Lachlan, Atlas, Koa, Shepherd, Wylder, Finley
Other spellings of Lenyx
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, “Lenyx: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lenyx, updated 20 October 2026.