Lendora vs Lennox
American parents have registered 19,739 Lennoxes since 1880, against 125 Lendoras. Lennox is still ahead, with 1,552 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lendora 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 85 years in which either name was published, Lennox for 69 years and Lendora for 16 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1920–1933 Lendora ahead
- 1950–1952 Lennox ahead
- 1954–1957 Lendora ahead
- 1958–2025 Lennox ahead, apart from one short spell
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Lendora | Lennox | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 125 | 19,739 |
| Most in one year | 11 | 1,915 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 1,552 |
| Estimated living today | 60 | 20,000 |
| Median age today | 69 | 5 |
| Peak year | 1954 | 2022 |
| Best rank | 3,490th girls | 248th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 289th |
| First recorded | 1918 | 1918 |
| Girls / boys | 125 / 0 | 5,409 / 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.
Which name is older
Half of the Lendoras alive today are over 69; half the Lennoxes are over 5. That is 64 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lendora and Lennox.