Baby name
RISING
🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 Leni
/LAY · nee/
Meaning
“Controversially”
German pet form of Helene or Magdalene, now used as a full given name; famously borne (controversially) by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, now being reclaimed.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
playful
How it ages.
Surging in Germany; fresh, warm, and short in the way that German parents currently love.
The cultural moment.
One of the fastest-rising names in Germany from 2015 onward; top 20 by the early 2020s.