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Elenora

#3,351 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Eleanor

Elenora has been given to 3,661 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,351 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Elenora, 2025

1 in 72,100

Elenora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elenora: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Eleanor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elenora means

Elenora is a variant of Eleanor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elenora → Eleanor. The family’s proposed meaning is “other”, recorded in English with the source elements alia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleanor.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,661 girls were recorded with the name Elenora between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 1917; its best national rank was #490 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,947 in 2020 to #3,351 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,125 in 2015 to #3,351 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elenora?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,351
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elenora 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elenora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elenoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elenora was born before 1924 — so the typical Elenora is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
770
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (826).

Is Elenora 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
+1,450
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+596
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,774
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.7%
Peak was 1917 (119)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#490
1888

Spellings of Elenora

Elenora is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 52.6% against Elenora's 0.57%.

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 Elenora is used

Across 1910–2025, Elenora was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 138,050 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Maryland1 in 50,000
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 50,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 100,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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

Elenora around the world

Where Elenora 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
    2013–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elenora in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Elenora. Linked forms have their own page here.

ElnoraEleonora

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Elenora by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,351
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 596
Best rank ever
#490
1888
Peak year
1917
119 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,661
Count in 2025
46

Names similar to Elenora

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

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Names with a curve like Elenora

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

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Sibling names for Elenora

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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