Help please!

[Livvysmumhasgotitgoingon]

We have sort of settled on a name (not 100% but it's a top contender) for baby girl. We love Lenny/Lennie/Lenni but unsure about spelling. Would love opinions on nicest spelling of this name for a girl and also middle name suggestions that might go nicely with this? So far we're thinking Lenny Jean, Lenny Violet or Lenny Rey? Thank you in advance!

Elena with Lennie as nn?

@Livvysmumhasgotitgoingon "
So my partner is Greek and it's a gender neutral name where he's from"

That's great-if she is going to grow up Greece. It's a boy's name in the UK.

Lenny Jean! What a cool girl name 😎

But Leni has a long E sound.

The op wants it pronounced with a short E!

I like Lennie Jean!

@Leeloo1233 "Lenny Jean! What a cool girl name" why is it "cool" for a girl to have a boy's name?

Lenny is a boys name

Exactly

@Sunnyflow As far as I know it has a number of pronunciations! I listened to a few German people say it on Forvo before I posted the original message.

Some use a short 'e', some use an 'ay' sound and some use 'ee'. Quite versatile!

I was mostly referring to Jean, which is a cool girl name in my opinion. But Lenny Jean sounds awesome. And to me Lenny sounds quite feminine actually, but then again I wasn't born in the UK and have lived abroad quite a bit. There are other countries than England you know!

We are happy with our name choice. We'll never please everyone and that's OK, you don't have to like it. We weren't asking opinions on our choice, we were asking opinions on how to spell it, so while I appreciate not everyone will like it, posting comments telling me I shouldn't use a boys name is probably just going to be a waste of your time. 😊

*@Sunnyflow As far as I know it has a number of pronunciations! I listened to a few German people say it on Forvo before I posted the original message.

Some use a short 'e', some use an 'ay' sound and some use 'ee'. Quite versatile!*

No native German speaker would ever pronounce Leni as Lennie or as Laynie.

It's always pronounced with a LONG eh sound.

*No native German speaker would ever pronounce Leni as Lennie or as Laynie.

It's always pronounced with a LONG eh sound.*

Strange that i can't make any font appear in bold?!

But it’s just a matter of accent/where you’re from isn’t it? A German speaker would say it in one way, whereas a Greek speaker would preumably say Leni in the same way as Lenny, especially if a diminutive of Eleni (pronounced Eh-Lenny)! I’m sure most people would remember the intended pronunciation even if it needed to be corrected initially.

@Sunnyflow Ok well, all I'm doing is parroting what I heard on Forvo and read on Behind the Name (usually an accurate source of naming info!).