Name profile

Lenore

Short form of Eleanor.

PronunciationAmerican English /lə.ˈnɔɹ/; British English /lə.ˈnɔː/
Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#1,962

Meaning and history

Lenore is a short form of Eleanor. It is also the name of the narrator’s deceased beloved in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven (1845).

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 21 births, rank #6,125
2007: 18 births, rank #7,092
2008: 21 births, rank #6,350
2009: 21 births, rank #6,317
2010: 24 births, rank #5,602
20112011: 34 births, rank #4,244
2012: 38 births, rank #3,988
2013: 41 births, rank #3,703
2014: 63 births, rank #2,739
2015: 68 births, rank #2,619
20162016: 66 births, rank #2,643
2017: 46 births, rank #3,387
2018: 60 births, rank #2,810
2019: 71 births, rank #2,482
2020: 41 births, rank #3,607
20212021: 73 births, rank #2,440
2022: 76 births, rank #2,404
2023: 71 births, rank #2,494
2024: 97 births, rank #2,011
20252025: 98 births, rank #1,962

Lenore moved from #864 to #945 for girls between 1972 and 1973. Its highest annual birth count came in 1926, with 460 births.