Lenore

Where Lenore comes from

Apheretic form of Eleanor.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lenore
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1911
    Lenore Kight born
    American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist
  3. 1915
    Peak, #309
    360 babies named Lenore — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1942
    Lenore Blum born
    American computer scientist and mathematician
  5. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #778.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Eleanor.
Namesakes
  • Lenore Blum · American computer scientist and mathematician, born 1942
  • Lenore Kight · American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, 1911–2000
  • Lenore Aubert · Slovenian actress, 1918–1993
  • Lenore J. Coffee · American screenwriter and author, 1896–1984
  • Lenore Ulric · American actress, 1892–1970

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.