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Leneve vs Lennox

American parents have registered 19,739 Lennoxes since 1880, against 7 Leneves. Lennox is still ahead, with 1,552 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leneve against Lennox, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leneve Lennox

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 73 years in which either name was published, Lennox for 72 years and Leneve for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Leneve Lennox
Total US births 719,739
Most in one year 71,915
Babies in 2025 under 51,552
Estimated living today 020,000
Median age today 5
Peak year 19102022
Best rank 1,935th girls248th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked289th
First recorded 19101918
Girls / boys 7 / 05,409 / 14,330

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Leneve and Lennox.