Lenita
Lenita is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196038 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1919
- 1,178people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,178 girls have been named Lenita in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 38 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 38 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 22%.
By decade
In 1960, its biggest year
Lenita was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Lenita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Donettapeak 1956
- Ladonnapeak 1964
- Laritapeak 1957
- Johnettepeak 1949
- Joellenpeak 1960
- Lawannapeak 1964
- Julenepeak 1958
- Lawanapeak 1971
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.