Meaning not yet researched.
Lenox: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 139 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,181 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,181 in 2023; #1,356 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Lenox in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,356 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,181.
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Lenox: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 139 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,181 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 174 (2023).
In 2025, 139 US boys were named Lenox, making it the 1,356th most common boys’ name of the year, up 202 places from #1,558 in 2024. That is 27 more than the 112 boys named Lenox in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,181, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 174. For comparison, it was #1,776 in 2015 and #2,693 in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Lenox, making it the 5,835th most common girls’ name of the year, up 714 places from #6,549 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 18 girls named Lenox in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,111, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 54. For comparison, it was #3,111 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lenox in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 2,598 US babies have been given the name, 19% of them girls and 81% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,122 babies named Lenox.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,385 US boys were named Lenox; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 174. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,288 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lenox ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #592 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lennox (19,739 babies since 1880), Lennix (921 babies since 1880) and Lynnox (677 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lynix, Linux and Lynex 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: Lynix (205), Linux (87), Lynex (48).
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 Lenox in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | #592 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #695 | #820 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #704 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #988 | #1,318 |
| New York | 12 | #1,026 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,100 | #1,630 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,354 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,526 | #2,042 |
| California | 5 | #2,659 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,835 | 139 | #1,356 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,549 | 112 | #1,558 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,326 | 174 | #1,181 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,167 | 171 | #1,187 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,591 | 160 | #1,211 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,581 | 155 | #1,220 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,119 | 159 | #1,206 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,711 | 114 | #1,510 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,892 | 110 | #1,515 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,045 | 91 | #1,713 |
| 2015 | 54 | #3,111 | 86 | #1,776 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,849 | 81 | #1,836 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,615 | 69 | #2,002 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,918 | 48 | #2,576 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,852 | 42 | #2,833 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,341 | 41 | #2,902 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,040 | 26 | #3,984 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,713 | 17 | #5,391 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,409 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,443 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,184 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,331 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,346 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,832 | — | — |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,633 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,421 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,170 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,442 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,693 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,505 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,871 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,493 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,884 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,278 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,162 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,290 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,049 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,693 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,035 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,062 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,711 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,798 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,019 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,845 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,989 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,273 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,905 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,313 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,043 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,575 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,610 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,391 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,536 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,903 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,676 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,978 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,559 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,860 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,654 |
| 1914 | — | — | 10 | #2,203 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,747 |
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).