Lennart
A Germanic name meaning "lion strength". It stays rare in Poland: only about 47 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Lennart Pronunciation
Lennart is pronounced LEN-nahrt (/ˈlɛnnart/).
What Lennart means
Where Lennart comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lennart is the Scandinavian and German form of Leonard, built from two old Germanic words. The first, lewo, means lion, taken long ago from the Latin leo. The second, hard, means strong and brave. Together they give the meaning set down here: lion strength, or in Polish, silny jak lew.
The name settled in the north. In Sweden and among Germans it became an everyday given name, while the longer Leonhard stayed closer to church and formal record. Lennart kept no diminutive of its own and no separate feminine, so it moves through life in one plain shape.
Real bearers give the meaning some ground. Lennart Meri, the writer who became president of Estonia, worked for years as a filmmaker before politics. The Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson made the first widely seen images of a human fetus, published in 1965.
On a Polish class register, Lennart sits among the Leons and Leonards, a shorter cousin from further north. Read it back to its roots and the lion is still there: lewo and hard, lion strength.
How many people are named Lennart
1 in 454174 men in Poland is named Lennart. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5554 among male names.
Lennart's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Lennart as a middle name
Lennart is a first name for 47 men in Poland and a middle name for another 45, a 51/49 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1159th, between Jerome (45) and Leonidas (45).
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#1157 Jasper45
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#1158 Jerome45
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#1159 Lennart45
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#1160 Leonidas45
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#1161 Majkel45