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Lennon

Lennon: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“lover”
Origin
Irish
Say it
LEN-un · 2 syllables
Used for
Both (59% girls, 41% boys since 1880)

Transferred from an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Leannáin. The surname derives from leannán, meaning lover or sweetheart.

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How popular is Lennon?

2024490 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Lennon in 20241,631

2024 rank#235 girls

Peak year2022

Total US babies since 188018,838

Lennon is rising: use over the last five years is 3.6× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Lennon

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Lennynmodern spelling of Lennon · American (modern coinage)
  • Rileyvaliant · Irish
  • Rowanlittle red-haired one · Irish
  • Quinndescendant of Conn · Irish
  • Roryred king · Irish
  • Caseyvigilant · Irish
  • Murphysea warrior · Irish
  • Rowenlittle red one · Irish

Lennon questions

What does the name Lennon mean?

Lennon means "lover". It comes from Irish. Transferred from an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Leannáin. The surname derives from leannán, meaning lover or sweetheart.

Is Lennon a boy or girl name?

Lennon is used for both: about 59% of US babies named Lennon since 1880 were girls.

How popular is Lennon?

1,631 US babies were named Lennon in 2024. Its peak year was 2022.

How do you pronounce Lennon?

Lennon is usually pronounced LEN-un.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.