Lenoir
loc · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a darkhaired or swarthy individual, from noir ‘black’ with the definite article le
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lenoir is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- SGSingapore
- NCNew Caledonia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname for a darkhaired or swarthy individual, from noir ‘black’ with the definite article le.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Lenoir is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, de le noir, surnom d’après la couleur des cheveux.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In English, county, NC; pers. 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)
- Jean Charles Pierre Lenoirb. 1732FRFrench librarian (1732–1807)
- Alexandre Lenoirb. 1761FRFrench archaeologist (1761–1839)
- Étienne Lenoirb. 1822BEBelgian engineer (1822-1900)
- Jean-Claude Lenoirb. 1944FRFrench politician
- Gregg Allmanb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (1947–2017)
- Denis Lenoirb. 1949FRFrench cinematographer
- Frédéric Lenoirb. 1962FRFrench writer, philosopher, historian/sociologist and lecturer
- Blandine Lenoirb. 1973FRFrench actress and film director
- Noémie Lenoirb. 1979FRmodel and actress
- Alban Lenoirb. 1980FRFrench actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,222 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,236 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2.1K | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.1K | #481 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.9K | #528 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.6K | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Lenoir mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a darkhaired or swarthy individual, from noir ‘black’ with the definite article le. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lenoir have the most bearers?
- Lenoir is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lenoirThe 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, “Lenoir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.