How Many People Are Named Lenore?
people named Lenore are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 36,437 people in the US has this name
Based on 22,974 babies named Lenore in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
460 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of ELEANOR. This was the name of the departed love of the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Raven' (1845).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Lenore in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lenore alive today is about 62 years old, and 65% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 54 and 78 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lenore first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1926, to 460 babies. In 2025, 98 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Lenore has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #309, in 1915. In 2025 it ranked #1,971.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,971 |
| Best rank | #309 (1915) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #325 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lenore alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lenore were born in New York than in any other state: about 1,913 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lenore was given 2.9 times as often in New York, 2.2 times in New Jersey and 2 times in Illinois.
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