girls:
22.8k births since 1880
#944 (83rd percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1929
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
22.8k births since 1880
#1677 (78th percentile)
The name Lenore is the #1,677 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,778 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #944 (83.5% percentile) for all time with 22,772 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1929.
Lenore has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1929 for boys).
The name Lenore has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lenore reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 51.5% percentile (ranked #293) with 371 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 374 births per million (ranked 49.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lenore ranks #881 for girls (7.0% percentile) with 41 births per million, which is 10.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lenore reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #530) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lenore".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Lenore. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Lenore is pronounced as luh-NOR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is leh-NOR, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L AH0 N AO1 R) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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