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[ 2 syll. le-no-re, len-ore ] The girl name Lenore is pronounced LahNAOR †. Lenore is of Old Provençal and Old Greek origin. It is used mainly in the English language. The name was used by Edgar Allan Poe for the lost love of the narrator in his poem The Raven (1845). In addition, Lenore is a short form of the English Eleanor. Lenore is also a form of the English Helen. A form of the name is the English Lenoir. Lenore is unusual as a baby girl name. Its usage peaked modestly in 1929 with 0.037% of baby girls being given the name Lenore. It had a ranking of #315 then. The baby name has fallen out of favor since then, and is of only irregular use today. Among the family of girl names directly linked to Lenore, Eleanor was the most widely used in 2008. Baby names that sound like Lenore include the Hebrew Leemor, the English Lanora, the English Leanora, the English Lenoir, the English and Spanish Lenora, the Portuguese and Spanish Leonor, the German and English Leonore, the Hebrew Limor, and the German, Greek, Italian, English, and Spanish Leonora.
† Pronunciation for Lenore: L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)"   |
