How Many People Are Named Lenora?

17,054

people named Lenora are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 20,041 people in the US has this name

Based on 37,089 babies named Lenora in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,772

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#954

See the top 100

Peak Year

1924

678 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Short form of ELENORA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Lenora in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lenora alive today is about 53 years old, and 55% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 33 and 73 in 2025.

Under 30 4,059
23.8%
30 to 59 3,698
21.7%
60 and over 9,298
54.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lenora first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1924, to 678 babies. In 2025, 562 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Lenora has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #183, in 1881. In 2025 it ranked #539.

Girls
Rank in 2025#539
Best rank#183 (1881)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#267 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Lenora alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lenora were born in New York than in any other state: about 1,140 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lenora was given 2.2 times as often in Oklahoma, 2.1 times in Mississippi and 2 times in Arkansas.

New York 1,140
Texas 1,068
California 978
Illinois 716
Pennsylvania 714
Ohio 664
Florida 614
Michigan 569
North Carolina 540
Georgia 510
Mississippi 417
Alabama 404
New Jersey 372
Missouri 368
Virginia 363
South Carolina 350
Louisiana 343
Oklahoma 308
Indiana 293
Maryland 273
Arkansas 266
Tennessee 242
Kentucky 212
Washington 179
West Virginia 165
Minnesota 162
New Mexico 154
Wisconsin 134
Colorado 127
Arizona 120
Kansas 109
Massachusetts 97
District of Columbia 94
Iowa 91
Connecticut 65
Hawaii 61
Oregon 59
Utah 39
Nebraska 27
North Dakota 22
Maine 10
South Dakota 10
Idaho 9
Rhode Island 5
Alaska 5
Montana 4

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