How Many People Are Named Lenox?

2,420

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

About 1 in 141,233 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,598 babies named Lenox in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,960

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Gender-Neutral Names

#400

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Peak Year

2023

207 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Scottish, English (Rare)
Pronunciation: LEN-əks
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

From a surname which was a variant of LENNOX.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Lenox in English. Counting Lenox and these spellings together, about 21,973 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
20.3%
Male
79.7%

Of the babies given the name Lenox, 20.3% were girls and 79.7% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 2000s: 15.8% of the babies were girls then and 17.4% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lenox alive today is about 8 years old, and 97% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 10 in 2025.

Under 30 2,353
97.2%
30 to 59 27
1.1%
60 and over 40
1.7%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lenox first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 2023, to 207 babies. In 2025, 160 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Lenox has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,181, in 2023. In 2025 it ranked #1,356. Among girls, its best rank was #3,111, in 2015.

BoysGirls
Rank in 2025#1,356#5,834
Best rank#1,181 (2023)#3,111 (2015)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#1,267 in the 2020s#4,915 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Lenox were born in New York than in any other state: about 195 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lenox was given 3.9 times as often in Georgia, 3.1 times in New York and 2 times in North Carolina.

New York 195
Georgia 140
Florida 116
Texas 105
California 94
North Carolina 72
Ohio 54
Michigan 46
Massachusetts 45
New Jersey 35
Tennessee 34
Illinois 29
Virginia 29
Pennsylvania 17
Louisiana 11
Connecticut 10
Missouri 10
Alabama 8
Mississippi 6
Minnesota 5
Wisconsin 5

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