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
Showing
- 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
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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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First appearance
1912
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.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 204 spots since 2024 (#1,556 → #1,352)
- 137 spots since 2020 (#1,215 → #1,352)
- 415 spots since 2015 (#1,767 → #1,352)
Rise & fade · boys
111 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2023 at #1,176 (174 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,831
- 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%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 43.3% of all boys named Lenox (911) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2003
- 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.
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