Lenore

German variation of Leonora, Italian derivative of Eleonora, meaning unknown

Lenore Origin and Meaning

The name Lenore is a girl's name of German, Greek origin.

A "modernization" of Leonora that has suddenly come back on the radar along with the many other Leo names--both male and female. With literary cred via a famous eponymous poem by Edgar Allan Poe (and also in his even more famous The Raven,) Lenore was steadily in the top half of the popularity list until the mid-fifties, falling off in 1973. Cameron Diaz played a Lenore in The Green Hornet.

# 941 in the US

Lenore Rank in US Top 1000

# 483 on Nameberry

Lenore Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Lenore Popularity

Famous People Named Lenore

  • Lenore Skenazy
    American journalist and author
  • Lenore LaFount Romney
    actress and mother of American politician Mitt Romney
  • Lenore Elizabeth Zann
    American actress
  • Lenore Tawney (born Leonora Agnes Gallagher)
    American fiber artist
  • Lenore Guinzberg Marshall
    American poet
  • Sutton Lenore Foster
    American actress

Lenore in Pop Culture

  • "Lenore
    " poem by E.A. Poe
  • Lenore
    also mentioned in Poe's "The Raven" as the lost love of the narrator
  • "Lenore
    The Cute Little Dead Girl," black comedy comic series created by Roman Dirge; inspired by Poe
  • "Lenore
    " German ballad by Gottfried August Burger
  • Lenore La Verne
    stage name of Elly Chiply (actress, who marries Harold Westbrook) in the Edna Ferber novel "Show Boat" (1926)
  • Lenore
    character in children's book "Many Moons" by James Thurber
  • Lenore Case
    character in the 2011 movie "The Green Hornet"