Lenore
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Lenore is also given to boys.
Pronounced luh-NOR.
As of October 2026, Lenore ranked #1971 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #309 in 1915, Nameberry popularity #338.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,765 | 63 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #2,635 | 68 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #2,655 | 66 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #3,420 | 46 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #2,828 | 60 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,494 | 71 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #3,656 | 41 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,454 | 73 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #2,413 | 76 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #2,504 | 71 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #2,018 | 97 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #1,971 | 98 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Lenore for girls
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Lenore on lists
Famous Lenores
- Lenore SkenazyGirl
American journalist and author
- Lenore LaFount RomneyGirl
actress and mother of American politician Mitt Romney
- Lenore Elizabeth ZannGirl
American actress
- Lenore Tawney (born Leonora Agnes Gallagher)Girl
American fiber artist
- Lenore Guinzberg MarshallGirl
American poet
- Sutton Lenore FosterGirl
American actress
Lenore in pop culture
- "LenoreGirl
" poem by E.A. Poe
- LenoreGirl
also mentioned in Poe's "The Raven" as the lost love of the narrator
- "LenoreGirl
The Cute Little Dead Girl," black comedy comic series created by Roman Dirge; inspired by Poe
- "LenoreGirl
" German ballad by Gottfried August Burger
- Lenore La VerneGirl
stage name of Elly Chiply (actress, who marries Harold Westbrook) in the Edna Ferber novel "Show Boat" (1926)
- LenoreGirl
character in children's book "Many Moons" by James Thurber
- Lenore CaseGirl
character in the 2011 movie "The Green Hornet"
- Lenore Dove BairdGirl
character from the book "Sunrise On The Reaping", a prequel to "The Hunger Games", by Suzanne Collins