Entry № 5843 · Scottish origin

Lennox Lennox — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEN-iks /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Elm grove (Annie Lennox, Eurythmics)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "elm grove (annie lennox, eurythmics)".

Lennox is from the Scottish Gaelic Leamhnach — elm grove, an ancient earldom in Scotland. The name has surged in modern American naming alongside other Scottish -ox endings (Knox, Maddox, Fox).

Elm grove (Annie Lennox, Eurythmics) — a Scottish name.

The name in its native script.

Lennox
Transliteration
Lennox
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɛn.ɪks /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lennox stands.

Lennox 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.

Lennoxs before her.

Real people
Annie Lennox
Scottish Grammy singer.
born 1954
In fiction
Lennox
Shakespeare's Macbeth.
c. 1606

Names connected to Lennox.

The number behind Lennox.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lennox reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.