Lenore

Where Lenore comes from

Apheretic form of Eleanor.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lenore
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Lenore through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls, with 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, its best rank.
  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.