Lenora

Where Lenora comes from

The dictionaries list Lenora as a given name — a female given name, variant of Eleanor — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #185 among girls — 66 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #181
    68 babies named Lenora — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1950
    Lenora Fulani born
    American academic and activist
  4. 1985
    Lenora Crichlow born
    British actress
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,730.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Eleanor.
Namesakes
  • Lenora Crichlow · British actress, born 1985
  • Lenora Fulani · American academic and activist, born 1950
  • Lenora Claire · American actress, born 1980
  • Lenora Garfinkel · American architect, 1930–2020
  • Lenora Nemetz · American singer, dancer, actress, born 1949

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.