Girls' name · peaked in 1906

Lenore name popularity since 1925

16,418 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Lenore. Half of them were born in 1947 or earlier, so the typical Lenore is about 79 years old in 2026. Lenore peaked in 1906 as the #312 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 16,418; Named Lenore, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1906; #312 for girls that year
Typical age: About 79; Median birth year 1947
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #1,971 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 100.0% girls; 16,412 girls · 6 boys
Most popular in: New York; 3.85× its national share

Peak year is the year Lenore made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Lenore births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 1926. Measured as a share of all babies, Lenore peaked earlier, in 1906.

Steepest fall: Between 1959 and 1964, Lenore's share of baby girls fell by 43%, from 1 in 6,950 to 1 in 12,200.

Shaded on the chart. This compares Lenore's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Lenore.

Decade by decade

Babies named Lenore in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	2,175	6	–
1930s	3,602	0	#337
1940s	3,266	0	#431
1950s	2,775	0	#574
1960s	1,927	0	#789
1970s	1,030	0	#1,313
1980s	352	0	#2,836
1990s	157	0	#7,324
2000s	161	0	#7,347
2010s	511	0	#2,635
2020–25	456	0	#1,971

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

38.2% of babies named Lenore from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Lenore is most popular

The index compares Lenore's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Lenore.

State	Index	Babies
New York	3.85×	3,691
New Jersey	2.56×	892
Connecticut	2.34×	321
Illinois	2.24×	1,381
Wisconsin	1.89×	471

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Lenore's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Lenore.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Lenore (1906).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data