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Elenor

#3,659 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Elenor has been given to 2,268 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #3,659 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Elenor, 2025

1 in 80,900

Elenor over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elenor: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elenor means

Elenor is a given name.

The naming story behind Elenor

Wikidata records Elenor as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q61930433, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,268 girls were recorded with the name Elenor between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1921; its best national rank was #652 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,359 in 2020 to #3,659 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,157 in 2015 to #3,659 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 Elenor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 39,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,659
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elenor 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elenor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elenors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elenor was born before 1929 — so the typical Elenor is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
666
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (522).

Is Elenor 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
+1,837
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,700
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,498
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.2%
Peak was 1921 (67)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#652
1884

Spellings of Elenor

Elenor is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 55.3% against Elenor's 0.37%.

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 Elenor is used

Across 1910–2025, Elenor was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 321,245 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

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. Elenor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elenor around the world

Where Elenor 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1973–2004
    #677
    in 2004
  • France
    2001–2001
    #4,389
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1945–1998
    #710
    in 1998

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

Elenor by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,659
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,700
Best rank ever
#652
1884
Peak year
1921
67 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,268
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Elenor

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

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Names with a curve like Elenor

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elenor, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Elenor

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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