Lennart

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Low German form of Leonhard

Related Names

See Leonhard

Name Days

Norway

6 November

Finland (Swedish Language)

28 September

Sweden

28 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1549 ^[1]

Namesakes

Lennart Torstenson, Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad (17 August 1603 – 7 April 1651), Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer

Gustaf Lennart Nicolaus Paul Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (8 May 1909 – 21 December 2004), a grandson of King Gustaf V of Sweden, Prince of Sweden and the Duke of Småland until 1932

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		0	0	29025	130728
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	1462	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	356	491
Finland[5]		n.a.	1	n.a	6325
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Lennart.

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi