Lenore is the English form of Leonora/Eleonora — from the Old Provençal Aliénor. A vintage American revival in the modern aesthetic. Lenore in Edgar Allan Poe's poetry — the name of the deceased beloved that haunts the narrator in The Raven (1845) and the earlier poem Lenore (1843); "For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore" became one of the most-quoted lines in American poetry; The Raven is widely considered the most-recognized poem in American literature, taught in nearly every US high school. Lenore Goodfriend — American philanthropist.
Lenore 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lenore reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.