# Lennox (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lennox/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,591 |
| US rank (2010) | 9,097 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 85,978 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.9% (3,391 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Middle English Levenax, from Scottish Gaelic Leamhnach (“inhabitant of Lennox”) + -s. The Gaelic word derives from Leamhain (“Leven”) + -ach.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lennox in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 8.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lennox in the United States, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Lennox

- Betty Lennox, American basketball player (born 1976)
- Ari Lennox, American singer
- Panda Bear, American musician
- Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland, British baroness (1723-1774); eldest of the Lennox sisters
- Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster, British duchess (1731-1814); second of the famous Lennox sisters

## Similar surnames

Lenox, Lenz, Leanos, Leng, Lenk, Long, Lynch, Lyons, Lang, Lange, Lemus, Liang.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.