Lennon comes from an Irish surname, derived from the Irish byname Leannán meaning ‘lover’. As a given name, it has grown in popularity in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
Lennon is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to girls than to boys.
The name Lennon is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #680 in the SmartGenius ranking. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lennon.
Lennon comes from an Irish surname, derived from the Irish byname Leannán meaning ‘lover’. As a given name, it has grown in popularity in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
The popularity of Lennon... probably goes back to John Lennon, musician and member of the band The Beatles.
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 Lennon 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 Lennon 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 Lennon, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Nut
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lennon
Lennon
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
N
N
O
N
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
O
N
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. Lennon sounds like this:
