Entry № 5845 · Other origin

Lenora Lenora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ leh-NOR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Light (English + Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "light (english + edgar allan poe's lenore)".

Lenora is one of the English feminine names — central to traditional English + American literary heritage. English feminine name reflecting Romantic literary heritage.

Light (English + Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore).

The name in its native script.

Lenora
Transliteration
Lenora
Pronunciation
/ lɛˈnɔːr.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lenora stands.

Lenora does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lenoras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Lenore / Leonora
Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore 1843 + The Raven 1845 + Beethoven's Leonore Overtures + Fidelio 1805 + Schubert's Lenore 1828.
Poe + Beethoven + Schubert

Names connected to Lenora.

The number behind Lenora.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lenora reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.