Lenore
About Lenore
A "modernization" of Leonora that has suddenly come back on the radar along with the many other Leo names--both male and female. With literary cred via a famous eponymous poem by Edgar Allan Poe (and also in his even more famous The Raven,) Lenore was steadily in the top half of the popularity list until the mid-fifties, falling off in 1973. Cameron Diaz played a Lenore in The Green Hornet.
As of October 2026, Lenore ranked #1971 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #309 in 1915, Nameberry popularity #380.
Editor's take: The name Lenore is a girl's name of German, Greek origin.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,765 | 63 | 35.3 |
| 2015 | #2,635 | 68 | 38.1 |
| 2016 | #2,655 | 66 | 37.2 |
| 2017 | #3,420 | 46 | 26.6 |
| 2018 | #2,828 | 60 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | #2,494 | 71 | 42.3 |
| 2020 | #3,656 | 41 | 25.4 |
| 2021 | #2,454 | 73 | 44.5 |
| 2022 | #2,413 | 76 | 46.3 |
| 2023 | #2,504 | 71 | 44.2 |
| 2024 | #2,018 | 97 | 59.9 |
| 2025 | #1,971 | 98 | 61 |
World rankings
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Lenore on lists
Famous Lenores
- Lenore Skenazy
American journalist and author
- Lenore LaFount Romney
actress and mother of American politician Mitt Romney
- Lenore Elizabeth Zann
American actress
- Lenore Tawney (born Leonora Agnes Gallagher)
American fiber artist
- Lenore Guinzberg Marshall
American poet
- Sutton Lenore Foster
American actress
Lenore in pop culture
- "Lenore
" poem by E.A. Poe
- Lenore
also mentioned in Poe's "The Raven" as the lost love of the narrator
- "Lenore
The Cute Little Dead Girl," black comedy comic series created by Roman Dirge; inspired by Poe
- "Lenore
" German ballad by Gottfried August Burger
- Lenore La Verne
stage name of Elly Chiply (actress, who marries Harold Westbrook) in the Edna Ferber novel "Show Boat" (1926)
- Lenore
character in children's book "Many Moons" by James Thurber
- Lenore Case
character in the 2011 movie "The Green Hornet"
- Lenore Dove Baird
character from the book "Sunrise On The Reaping", a prequel to "The Hunger Games", by Suzanne Collins
Variations & nicknames
- LeonorSpanish
- EleanorEnglish
More nicknames
- Nori