Name meaning & stats
Lenore
Lenore means “light (debated)”. 10,635 US babies since 1940, peak 1947.
What it means
“light (debated)”
Form of Eleanor
In US birth records
Peak year: 1947
10,635 US babies were named Lenore between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Lenore (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Lenore is the main spelling
- Lenore 98%
- Lenor 2%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1947)