Lennie is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to girls than to boys.
At least in the US, the name Lennie is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Lennie each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Lennie will meet someone with the same name. So, Lennie is a very special name!
Lennie is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2013, where the name Lennie was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Lennie and were born in the USA in 2013, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Lennie even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular first names: In 1887, it ranked on position 573 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lennie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Lennie has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 31 times and thus landed on position 7,718 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 31 kids with the name Lennie, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is quite common as an initial letter for first names. To be precise, 5.5% of all given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.
With six letters, the name Lennie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.
Therefore: As 5.5% of all first names start with an L, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Lennie 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 Lennie, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lennie
Lennie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
N
N
I
E
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
N
I
E
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. Lennie sounds like this:
