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I think it isn't a very nice or even appropriate name in English-speaking countries. How would you even pronounce it? LAY-nee? LEE-nee? I must say, I only like the name - and like it very much - in German-speaking or Scandinavian countries, where it would be pronounced LEH-nee without an accent and would fit in the type of names used there. Yes, I like the name. But I still wouldn't use it for my own daughter because it has got a very childish touch to it. The -i ending isn't THAT common in Germany (where I live) for full first names. It is a nickname ending. So when I hear or read Leni, it is a nickname for a little, cute girl with pigtails to me. And I would want my children to have names that sounds more mature.. a little more mature. But I would like to see the name on another child or teenaged girl, even on a woman. But not on my own child.