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

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Peak · boys
2023 · 174 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,104
since 1912

Lenox over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,092, 2015girlsboysat peak
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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
Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#5,72221#1,352139
2024#6,39418#1,556112
2023#4,27633#1,176174
2022#4,10835#1,186171
2021#3,55343#1,207160
2020#3,54642#1,215155
2019#4,07235#1,202159
2018#3,67741#1,506114
2017#3,84839#1,510110
2016#3,99637#1,70691
2015#3,09254#1,76786
2014#4,76829#1,82881
2013#6,46219#1,98969
2012#10,42910#2,55148
2011#10,37410#2,79842
2010#13,4487#2,87441
2009#11,4599#3,91926
2008#13,8327#5,24917
2007#7,09411
2006#5,30316
2005#5,03416
2004#6,97610
2003#9,5816
2002
2001#15,3525
2000#6,31610
1999#8,7046
1998#8,4796
1997
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1995#7,7926
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1989#7,9055
1988
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1986
1985#5,1477
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1981#6,2625
1980
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1978#5,0596
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1961
1960#3,6656
1959
1958#3,9445
1957
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1955#3,8865
1954
1953#3,1437
1952#3,7345
1951
1950#2,5809
1949
1948
1947#3,7335
1946#2,9197
1945
1944#3,4305
1943
1942
1941#3,5055
1940#2,8717
1939
1938
1937
1936#3,5495
1935
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1933
1932#2,8498
1931#3,0957
1930#2,7819
1929#3,9595
1928
1927#2,9129
1926#3,3857
1925#4,1975
1924#3,2608
1923#2,44612
1922
1921#2,80410
1920#4,2865
1919#3,7366
1918#3,3687
1917#2,7329
1916
1915#3,3926
1914#2,10110
1913
1912#2,5445
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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.

See more about Lenox
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
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s43#2,101 (1914)#2,979
1920s61#2,446 (1923)#3,406
1930s29#2,781 (1930)#3,069
1940s29#2,871 (1940)#3,292
1950s31#2,580 (1950)#3,457
1960s6#3,665 (1960)#3,665
1970s6#5,059 (1978)#5,059
1980s17#5,147 (1985)#6,438
1990s18#7,792 (1995)#8,325
2000s112#3,919 (2009)#6,184
2010s841#1,202 (2019)#1,973
2020s911#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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