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The LENNY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 242 74398 0 1
United States (1880 census) 88 34217 0 2
Change since 1880 +154 -40181 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 24 45433 0 1
United Kingdom 121 22003 0 3
Top States for LENNY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 39 52795 0.000 1
New York 32 52995 0.000 2
New Jersey 28 33634 0.000 3
Texas 18 54692 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 16 75420 0.000 1
Top States for LENNY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 28 33634 0.000 3
Colorado 12 37858 0.000 3
Missouri 11 41614 0.000 2
Washington 10 58766 0.000 2
New York 32 52995 0.000 2

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LENNY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LENNY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LENNY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LENNY by picking someone at random in New Jersey than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LENNY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LENNY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LENNY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LENNY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 207 85.54
Black/African American 14 5.79
White (Hispanic) 11 4.55
Asian/Pacific 9 3.72
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LENNY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LENNY in historical publications

G LENNY. A place at Abernyte, in Perthshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LENNY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LENNY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LENNY

The following words are slight variants of LENNY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.