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Elanor

#1,635 in 2025Girls' name

Star sun

Elanor has been given to 1,930 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #1,635 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Elanor, 2025

1 in 26,100

Elanor over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elanor: meaning, origin, and history

Star sun

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elanor means

Elanor means “star sun”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,930 girls were recorded with the name Elanor between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 129 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,618 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,107 in 2020 to #1,635 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,860 in 2015 to #1,635 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Elanor?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,100
127 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,635
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,095 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elanor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,095 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elanor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elanors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elanor was born before 2013 — so the typical Elanor is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,552
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Choose a decade

2020s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (645).

Is Elanor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+147
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+472
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,225
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
98.4%
Peak was 2023 (129)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,618
2023

Spellings of Elanor

Elanor is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 76.4% against Elanor's 0.44%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Elanor is used

Across 2016–2025, Elanor was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 31,514 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 10,000
  2. 2Utah1 in 10,000
  3. 3Idaho1 in 12,500
  4. 4Washington1 in 14,286
  5. 5Michigan1 in 16,667
  6. 6Virginia1 in 16,667
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Elanor around the world

Where Elanor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2005
    #687
    in 2005
  • France
    2003–2025
    #2,226
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elanor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,635
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 472
Best rank ever
#1,618
2023
Peak year
2023
129 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,930
Count in 2025
127

Names similar to Elanor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Elanor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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