Lenox
Lenox is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 139 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,834 among girls’ names and #1,356 among boys’, #2,589 among all names counting both); 2,598 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,420 Americans named Lenox and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lenox by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lenox?
#1,356 among boys’ names, 2025
Lenox rose from #1,776 in 2015 to #1,356 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 44.9 to 81.4 per million.
207 babies in 2023, the peak
Lenox peaked in 2023, when 207 babies were given it (174 boys, #1,181 among boys’ names). The 160 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 77% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,834 | 139 | #1,356 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,546 | 112 | #1,558 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,324 | 174 | #1,181 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,165 | 171 | #1,187 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,590 | 160 | #1,211 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,581 | 155 | #1,220 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,118 | 159 | #1,206 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,710 | 114 | #1,510 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,891 | 110 | #1,515 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,045 | 91 | #1,713 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,111 | 86 | #1,776 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,847 | 81 | #1,836 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,611 | 69 | #2,001 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,912 | 48 | #2,575 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,847 | 42 | #2,832 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,335 | 41 | #2,901 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,034 | 26 | #3,982 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,707 | 17 | #5,386 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 11 | #7,405 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 16 | #5,439 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 16 | #5,179 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 10 | #7,325 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #10,339 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,825 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,625 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #9,414 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #9,162 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,435 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,685 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 7 | #5,500 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,869 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,490 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,883 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,277 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,161 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 7 | #3,289 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #4,047 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 9 | #2,692 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #4,033 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,061 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,709 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,797 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #3,019 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,844 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 8 | #2,989 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 7 | #3,272 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 9 | #2,903 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #4,311 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 9 | #3,042 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 7 | #3,573 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,608 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 8 | #3,390 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 12 | #2,535 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 10 | #2,902 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,674 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #3,977 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,558 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 9 | #2,859 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,653 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 10 | #2,202 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,746 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lenox a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,598 Americans recorded as Lenox, 19% are girls and 81% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lenox: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lenox, and how old are they?
2,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 2,598 Americans ever recorded as Lenox. The median Lenox alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,516 people named Lenox (348 women and girls, 1,168 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,387 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 30 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,050 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lenox born?
The states with the most babies named Lenox are Georgia, North Carolina and New York, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 14 | #695 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #704 | 0.8× |
| New York | 12 | #1,026 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,100 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,526 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 8 | #988 | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #592 | 0.8× |
| California | 5 | #2,659 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,354 | 0.2× |
Where Lenox is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lenox is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1912 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lenox with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lenox?
Lenox is a less common spelling of Lennox: SSA has recorded 2,598 Lenox and 19,739 Lennox since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 23,999 babies since 1880, Lenox is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 160 of their 1,832 babies (8.7%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lenox
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lenox and names like it
- Compare Lenox and LennoxBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLenox peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lenox since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Lenox.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lenox alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.