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.

Lenore Rank in US Top 1000

# 941 in the US

Lenore Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 299 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Lenore

• 299 Nameberry 2025

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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

The name 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"