Given name & surname
Lenis
“one who has soft and silky skin”
Lenis is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “one who has soft and silky skin.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “one who has soft and silky skin.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
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
Lenis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 225
- 170 boys · 55 girls
- Most popular year
- 1934
- 16 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 9 in 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 563 as a first name in 2020; 1,050 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.
Lenis’s family of names
Lenis has a related form in Lenita. Lenis has a related form in Lene. Lenis has a related form in Lenice.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Lennicevariant
- Lenitavariant
- Lenicevariant
- Lenetavariant
- Lenevariant
- Llenislikely variant
- Lenetvariant
- Lenycevariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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