Given name & surname
Lenda
Lenda is a surname, possibly from German. It is used in Polish.
Original GermanLand
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Polish usage, Lenda as a surname developed from Land.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lenda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 872
- 0 boys · 872 girls
- Most popular year
- 1947
- 54 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 54 in 1947. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 915 as a first name in 2020; 234 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lenda’s family of names
In Polish usage, Lenda as a surname developed from the German form Land.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Lenda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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