Leonore

Where Leonore comes from

Borrowed from German Leonore.
— Wiktionary's entry for Leonore
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #830 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1906
    Peak, #716
    26 babies named Leonore — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1908
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,862.
  4. 1918
    Leonore Annenberg born
    American businesswoman
  5. 1977
    Leonore Gewessler born
    Austrian politician and minister
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Leonore Gewessler · Austrian politician and minister, born 1977
  • Leonore Annenberg · American businesswoman, 1918–2009
  • Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz · German academic student, 1944–1999
  • Leonore Harris · American actress, 1879–1953
  • Leonore Davidoff · American historian and sociologist, 1932–2014

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.