Given name & surname
Lennart
“one who is brave”
Lennart is used as a given name and a surname. One Scandinavian interpretation is “one who is brave.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scandinavian interpretation is “one who is brave.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Scandinavian.
How it developed
In Scandinavian use, Lennart is used as a form of Leonard.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Lennart is a variant of Leonard. The history of Leonard gives this family its wider story. Use of Leonard was revived during the 19th century.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Lennart through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 426
- 426 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 18 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 boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 434 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 82,102 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lennart’s family of names
Lennart has an affectionate form in Lelle. Lennart shares a linguistic root with Leonard. In Estonian usage, Lennart has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Leonardo.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Lennart has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
8 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- LeonardoPortuguese, Italian
- Леонардequivalent
- ΛεονάρδοςGreek
- LéonardFrench
- Lennarthequivalent
- Lenartequivalent
- Leonardusequivalent
- Lleonardequivalent
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People named Lennart
- Lennart MeriEstonian writer, filmmaker and politician; President of Estonia in 1992–2001 (1929-2006)
- Lennart CarlesonSwedish mathematicianborn 1928
- Lennart TorstenssonSwedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (1603-1651)
- Lennart KarlGerman association football playerborn 2008
- Lennart SkoglundSwedish association football player (1929-1975)
- Lennart NilssonSwedish photographer (1922–2017)
- Lennart BernadotteSwedish prince (1909–2004)
- Lennart BergelinSwedish tennis player1925–2008
- Lennart Strandathletics competitor (1921-2004)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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