Leni is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Leni is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 girls have been named Leni. In the SmartGenius ranking, Leni is #2,226 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Leni.
Helene Alexander (1942-2005)
The German-Chilean was known as »Leni« Alexander. Her compositions were mainly instrumental and were performed by orchestras in countries such as Chile, Italy, France and the United States.
Leni Klum (*2004)
Her real name being »Leni« Olumi Samuel, Leni is a US-American-German model. She is the daughter of German topmodel Heidi Klum.
Magdalene Sinclair (*1940)
Known as »Leni« Sinclair the US photographer has mainly taken pictures of rock and jazz musicians. She's also considered a radical political activist and has co-founded the White Panther Party.
Leni Zumas (*1972)
The US-American writer is the author of short fiction, essays and books like »«Red Clocks, »The Listeners«, and the story collection »Farewell Navigator«. Zumas lives in Oregon.
When you hear the name Leni, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Leni? Are you also called Leni? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
Leni is a municipality as well as one of the most important towns on Salina, one of the aeolian Islands belonging to Sicily (Italy).
In fact, the name Leni did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Leni seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,390, 139 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Leni, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Leni was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Leni are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Leni is registered in 18 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Leni live in North Dakota, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 32,607 would turn around if you called the name Leni across North Dakota.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Leni is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Leni and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Leni, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Leni
Leni
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
N
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
E
N
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Leni sounds like this:
