Lennox

Where Lennox comes from

Lennox hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,179 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1946
    Lennox Miller born
    Athletics competitor, sprinter
  3. 1965
    Lennox Lewis born
    British-Canadian boxer Vc
  4. 2022
    Peak, #248
    1,427 babies named Lennox — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lennox Lewis · British-Canadian boxer Vc, born 1965
  • Lennox Miller · Athletics competitor, sprinter, 1946–2004
  • Lennox Berkeley · British composer, 1903–1989
  • Lennox Kilgour · Trinidad and Tobago weightlifter, 1927–2004
  • Lennox Sebe · Ciskei president, 1926–1994

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.