Lenox
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #1,352 for boys in 2025, 139 births
Given to boys 81.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 174 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,104since 1912
Lenox over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 | #1,352 | 139 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #1,556 | 112 |
| 2023 | #4,276 | 33 | #1,176 | 174 |
| 2022 | #4,108 | 35 | #1,186 | 171 |
| 2021 | #3,553 | 43 | #1,207 | 160 |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 | #1,215 | 155 |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 | #1,202 | 159 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 | #1,506 | 114 |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 | #1,510 | 110 |
| 2016 | #3,996 | 37 | #1,706 | 91 |
| 2015 | #3,092 | 54 | #1,767 | 86 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #1,828 | 81 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #1,989 | 69 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #2,551 | 48 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #2,874 | 41 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #3,919 | 26 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | — | #7,094 | 11 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,303 | 16 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,034 | 16 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,976 | 10 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | — | |
| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
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| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
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| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | #2,580 | 9 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,781 | 9 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #2,912 | 9 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,260 | 8 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,446 | 12 | |
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | — | #2,804 | 10 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,368 | 7 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,732 | 9 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,101 | 10 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Lenox! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Lenox is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#463 · 1 in 2,730
- Georgia#559 · 1 in 2,799
- New York#675 · 1 in 4,084
- Louisiana#709 · 1 in 3,405
- Michigan#758 · 1 in 4,463
Best ever in a state: #435 in Connecticut, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #463 | 10 | 1 in 2,730 |
| Georgia | #559 | 18 | 1 in 2,799 |
| New York | #675 | 21 | 1 in 4,084 |
| Louisiana | #709 | 6 | 1 in 3,405 |
| Michigan | #758 | 9 | 1 in 4,463 |
| Wisconsin | #782 | 5 | 1 in 4,709 |
| Virginia | #947 | 6 | 1 in 6,208 |
| New Jersey | #1,046 | 5 | 1 in 8,073 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,238 | 5 | 1 in 10,404 |
| North Carolina | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 10,145 |
| Ohio | #1,286 | 5 | 1 in 10,496 |
| California | #1,369 | 13 | 1 in 13,836 |
| Florida | #1,814 | 5 | 1 in 18,845 |
| Texas | #1,923 | 8 | 1 in 22,176 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lenox
- 204 spots since 2024 (#1,556 → #1,352)
- 137 spots since 2020 (#1,215 → #1,352)
- 415 spots since 2015 (#1,767 → #1,352)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2023 at #1,176 (174 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,831 boys born in 2023 were named Lenox (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,288 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 43.3% of all boys named Lenox (911) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 43 | #2,101 (1914) | #2,979 |
| 1920s | 61 | #2,446 (1923) | #3,406 |
| 1930s | 29 | #2,781 (1930) | #3,069 |
| 1940s | 29 | #2,871 (1940) | #3,292 |
| 1950s | 31 | #2,580 (1950) | #3,457 |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,665 (1960) | #3,665 |
| 1970s | 6 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,059 |
| 1980s | 17 | #5,147 (1985) | #6,438 |
| 1990s | 18 | #7,792 (1995) | #8,325 |
| 2000s | 112 | #3,919 (2009) | #6,184 |
| 2010s | 841 | #1,202 (2019) | #1,973 |
| 2020s | 911 | #1,176 (2023) | #1,282 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lenox in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 48,624 of them was named Lenox, which outranked 75.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,191Zeniyah34
- #4,191Ziana34
- #4,191Ziggy34
- #4,276Lenox33
- #4,276Adelle33
- #4,276Amariyah33
- #4,276Ameliah33
- #4,363Abigale32
- #4,363Adali32
- #4,363Adalind32
Tied with 86 names at #4,276; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 9,831 of them was named Lenox, which outranked 91.7% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,172Davian175
- #1,172Gilbert175
- #1,172Gray175
- #1,176Lenox174
- #1,176Andreas174
- #1,176Bishop174
- #1,176Cashton174
- #1,184Amado173
- #1,185Isa171
- #1,185Kruz171
Tied with 7 names at #1,176; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.