Lenore
Lenore is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 97 births. Its best rank was 309th, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 970.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1926460 births
- Best rank
- #309in 1915
- Since 1880
- 22,870people given the name
The story in the numbers
22,870 girls have been named Lenore in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 460 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 94 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lenore | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 218 | |
| 1890s | 544 | |
| 1900s | 937 | |
| 1910s | 2,778 | |
| 1920s | 4,254 | |
| 1930s | 3,602 | |
| 1940s | 3,266 | |
| 1950s | 2,776 | |
| 1960s | 1,926 | |
| 1970s | 1,030 | |
| 1980s | 352 | |
| 1990s | 157 | |
| 2000s | 161 | |
| 2010s | 511 | |
| 2020s | 358 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Lenore was the 312th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Lenore
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Norinepeak 1920
- Rebapeak 1925
- Lavadapeak 1921
- Freidapeak 1947
- Retapeak 1946
- Helenepeak 1918
- Jeannettepeak 1917
- Claricepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.