Lennox
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Lennox’, ancient territory near Dumbarton, meaning ‘place of many elms’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lənɒks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lennox is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K
- CACanada≈1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 322 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
3,591 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Lennox’, ancient territory near Dumbarton, meaning ‘place of many elms’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lennox counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,591 | 1 in 93K | 6.9K | Lennox | 322 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 32 | Lennox | 179 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Lennox | 45 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 14 | Lennox | 153 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 191 | Lennox | 134 |
| IE Ireland | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Lennox | 39 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 31 | Lennox | 46 |
3,591 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lennox is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from the district of Lennox, Dunbartonshire; first attested John of Levenax 1400 Black
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
habitational name from the district near Dumbarton, recorded in 1174 in the form Leuenaichs and in the following year as Levenax. Apparently it is named from Gaelic leamhan ‘elm’ + the locative suffix -ach + English -s.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Transferred use of the Scottish surname, which is also the name of an earldom. It originated as a local name from a district north of Glasgow formerly known as The Levenach. This was the first name of the British composer Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-89).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Lennox är ett ursprungligt skotskt efternamn som i sin tur är hämtat från namnet på ett område nära Glasgow, the Levenach. Som många andra efternamn i engelskspråkiga länder har det efterhand kommit att användas också som förnamn. En känd bärare av efternamnet är artisten Annie Lennox (f. 1954).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, city, CA, SD; family name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmondb. 1701GBEnglish patron of cricket (1701-1750)
- Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond and Lennoxb. 1705NLBritish duchess; mother of the famous Lennox sisters
- Charles Lennoxb. 1735GBBritish politician and army officer (1735-1806)
- Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmondb. 1764GBBritish politician (1764-1819)
- William G. Lennoxb. 1884USAmerican neuroscientist (1884–1960)
- Doug Lennoxb. 1938CACanadian actor (1938-2015)
- John Lennoxb. 1943GBNorthern Irish mathematician and philosopher of science (b. 1943)
- Annie Lennoxb. 1954GBScottish singer-songwriter (born 1954)
- Panda Bearb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Ari Lennoxb. 1991USAmerican singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,097 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,875 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lennox mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Lennox’, ancient territory near Dumbarton, meaning ‘place of many elms’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Lennox?
- A machine transcription gives /lənɒks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lennox have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Lennox, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lennox.
- How common is the name Lennox?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,591 people named Lennox in 2010, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lennoxThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lennox”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.