Lennox

3,503 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lennox in the 2020 census, making it the 8,963rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 85,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,503
Rank: 8,963rd
How common: 1 in 85,300
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Levenax, from Scottish Gaelic Leamhnach (“inhabitant of Lennox”) + -s. The Gaelic word derives from Leamhain (“Leven”) + -ach.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lennox described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.6%
Black, not Hispanic 7.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Lennox

Annie Lennox (born 1954)Scottish singer-songwriter
John Lennox (born 1943)Northern Irish mathematician and philosopher of science
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1701–1750)English patron of cricket
Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond (1764–1819)British politician
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1734–1806)British politician and army officer
Charlotte Lennox (1730–1804)Scottish writer, editor
Betty Lennox (born 1976)American basketball player
Sarah Lennox (1745–1826)English noble (1745-1826); most notorious of the famous Lennox sisters

People named Lennox with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lennox

Also a first name

Lennox has been given to 19,739 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.