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How popular is “Leni” in the USA?

Number of people named “Leni” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Leni” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Leni” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Leni” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Leni” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Leni” by birth year

This chart shows how “Leni” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1938 6 0.000002712 6 100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 100%
1944 15 0.000005576 15 100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 12 0.000003756 12 100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 100%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 100%
1949 18 0.000005165 18 100%
1950 11 0.00000314 11 100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 100%
2006 26 0.000006572 26 100%
2007 23 0.000005753 18 5 57%
2008 23 0.000005851 23 100%
2009 33 0.000008638 33 100%
2010 33 0.000008929 28 5 70%
2011 34 0.000009295 34 100%
2012 36 0.000009843 36 100%
2013 37 0.000010149 32 5 73%
2014 39 0.000010522 39 100%
2015 40 0.000010808 40 100%
2016 52 0.000014174 52 100%
2017 55 0.000015379 55 100%
2018 81 0.000023038 81 100%
2019 108 0.000031116 103 5 91%
2020 99 0.000029636 99 100%
2021 117 0.000034534 117 100%
2022 141 0.000041677 141 100%
2023 208 0.000062817 201 7 93%
2024 187 0.000056181 187 100%

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