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Lennox vs Lenyx

American parents have registered 19,739 Lennoxes since 1880, against 504 Lenyxes. Lennox is still ahead, with 1,552 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lennox Lenyx

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

Lennox has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1918 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Lennox had 1,738 and Lenyx had 73.

Side by side

  Lennox Lenyx
Total US births 19,739504
Most in one year 1,91573
Babies in 2025 1,55245
Estimated living today 20,000500
Median age today 54
Peak year 20222024
Best rank 248th boys4,669th girls
Rank in 2025 289th7,133rd
First recorded 19182011
Girls / boys 5,409 / 14,330252 / 252

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: Lennox and Lenyx.