Lenore

Lenore is a girl's and boy's baby name of Greek origin, a variant of Eleanor, from the Greek Helenē, meaning 'torch, light.' The name is immortalized in Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven (1845), where the narrator mourns his lost Lenore — making it one of American literature's most haunting names.

With nearly 23,000 U.S. births, Lenore has a Gothic literary beauty that has never quite gone out of style — ethereal, melancholy, and deeply romantic in the 19th-century sense, it is having a quiet revival among parents who love literary names.