Meaning not yet researched.
Lenore: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #309 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #309 in 1915; #1,971 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lenore in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,971 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #309.
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Lenore: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 girls in 2025. Peak: #309 in 1915 · most girls in one year: 460 (1926).
In 2025, 98 US girls were named Lenore, making it the 1,971st most common girls’ name of the year, up 53 places from #2,024 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 97 girls named Lenore in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #309, reached in 1915. The most girls given the name in a single year was 460, in 1926. For comparison, it was #2,635 in 2015 and #476 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lenore in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 22,974 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,260 babies named Lenore.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 699 US girls were named Lenore; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 98. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,401 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lenore ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #898 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lenora (37,089 babies since 1880), Leonor (6,183 babies since 1880) and Leonore (2,313 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leanore, Lenor and Leanor are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leanore (772), Lenor (383), Leanor (309), Lynore (101), Lener (87), Lenoir (69), Lenar (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lenore in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #898 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,339 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,601 | #1,385 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,988 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,402 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,421 | — | — |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,314 | — | — |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,719 | — | — |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,451 | — | — |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,475 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,280 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,257 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,347 | — | — |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,521 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,823 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,719 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,517 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,672 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,010 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,266 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,679 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,240 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,324 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,147 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,295 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,178 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,887 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,319 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1975 | 84 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1974 | 109 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1973 | 128 | #945 | — | — |
| 1972 | 149 | #864 | — | — |
| 1971 | 187 | #779 | — | — |
| 1970 | 156 | #862 | — | — |
| 1969 | 174 | #772 | — | — |
| 1968 | 205 | #680 | — | — |
| 1967 | 198 | #694 | — | — |
| 1966 | 148 | #819 | — | — |
| 1965 | 157 | #789 | — | — |
| 1964 | 155 | #840 | — | — |
| 1963 | 177 | #779 | — | — |
| 1962 | 221 | #693 | — | — |
| 1961 | 235 | #676 | — | — |
| 1960 | 257 | #630 | — | — |
| 1959 | 291 | #578 | — | — |
| 1958 | 284 | #590 | — | — |
| 1957 | 289 | #568 | — | — |
| 1956 | 250 | #602 | — | — |
| 1955 | 254 | #574 | — | — |
| 1954 | 244 | #576 | — | — |
| 1953 | 257 | #542 | — | — |
| 1952 | 307 | #480 | — | — |
| 1951 | 308 | #474 | — | — |
| 1950 | 291 | #476 | — | — |
| 1949 | 321 | #445 | — | — |
| 1948 | 355 | #420 | — | — |
| 1947 | 408 | #400 | — | — |
| 1946 | 371 | #395 | — | — |
| 1945 | 275 | #431 | — | — |
| 1944 | 309 | #409 | — | — |
| 1943 | 344 | #394 | — | — |
| 1942 | 360 | #375 | — | — |
| 1941 | 284 | #406 | — | — |
| 1940 | 239 | #441 | — | — |
| 1939 | 296 | #383 | — | — |
| 1938 | 333 | #353 | — | — |
| 1937 | 340 | #346 | — | — |
| 1936 | 373 | #316 | — | — |
| 1935 | 352 | #337 | — | — |
| 1934 | 350 | #337 | — | — |
| 1933 | 376 | #322 | — | — |
| 1932 | 373 | #330 | — | — |
| 1931 | 398 | #320 | — | — |
| 1930 | 411 | #325 | — | — |
| 1929 | 433 | #315 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 1928 | 415 | #328 | — | — |
| 1927 | 459 | #311 | — | — |
| 1926 | 460 | #312 | — | — |
| 1925 | 408 | #332 | — | — |
| 1924 | 434 | #321 | — | — |
| 1923 | 387 | #332 | — | — |
| 1922 | 439 | #311 | — | — |
| 1921 | 417 | #323 | — | — |
| 1920 | 402 | #325 | — | — |
| 1919 | 390 | #319 | — | — |
| 1918 | 412 | #316 | — | — |
| 1917 | 367 | #320 | — | — |
| 1916 | 330 | #340 | — | — |
| 1915 | 360 | #309 | — | — |
| 1914 | 270 | #320 | — | — |
| 1913 | 210 | #332 | — | — |
| 1912 | 168 | #353 | — | — |
| 1911 | 131 | #349 | — | — |
| 1910 | 140 | #331 | — | — |
| 1909 | 114 | #338 | — | — |
| 1908 | 115 | #333 | — | — |
| 1907 | 97 | #359 | — | — |
| 1906 | 117 | #312 | — | — |
| 1905 | 113 | #317 | — | — |
| 1904 | 82 | #362 | — | — |
| 1903 | 78 | #363 | — | — |
| 1902 | 84 | #347 | — | — |
| 1901 | 56 | #394 | — | — |
| 1900 | 81 | #372 | — | — |
| 1899 | 68 | #356 | — | — |
| 1898 | 59 | #404 | — | — |
| 1897 | 67 | #358 | — | — |
| 1896 | 66 | #358 | — | — |
| 1895 | 62 | #354 | — | — |
| 1894 | 43 | #425 | — | — |
| 1893 | 67 | #330 | — | — |
| 1892 | 49 | #383 | — | — |
| 1891 | 25 | #517 | — | — |
| 1890 | 38 | #411 | — | — |
| 1889 | 37 | #402 | — | — |
| 1888 | 31 | #445 | — | — |
| 1887 | 37 | #356 | — | — |
| 1886 | 20 | #499 | — | — |
| 1885 | 22 | #453 | — | — |
| 1884 | 13 | #603 | — | — |
| 1883 | 17 | #472 | — | — |
| 1882 | 19 | #424 | — | — |
| 1881 | 10 | #563 | — | — |
| 1880 | 12 | #509 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).