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Leneve vs Lenora

American parents have registered 37,089 Lenoras since 1880, against 7 Leneves. Lenora is still ahead, with 562 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Leneve against Lenora, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Leneve Lenora

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

Lenora has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1910, when Leneve had 7 and Lenora had 214.

Side by side

  Leneve Lenora
Total US births 737,089
Most in one year 7678
Babies in 2025 under 5562
Estimated living today 017,000
Median age today 62
Peak year 19101924
Best rank 1,935th girls252nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked538th
First recorded 19101880
Girls / boys 7 / 037,058 / 31

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 Lenora.