Elenore
#6,916 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elenore has been given to 1,806 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #6,916 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 82 recorded.
Babies named Elenore, 2025
1 in 207,000
Elenore over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Elenore?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,916
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elenore sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elenore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elenores were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elenore was born before 1927 — so the typical Elenore is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 29.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 455
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (531).
Is Elenore 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
- −688
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −511
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,208
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.70×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.5%
- Peak was 1924 (82)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.8% average annual change
Spellings of Elenore
Elenore is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 68.9% against Elenore'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 Elenore is used
Across 1910–2025, Elenore was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 166,992 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in 100,000
- 2Michigan1 in 100,000
- 3New York1 in 100,000
- 4Ohio1 in 100,000
- 5Wisconsin1 in 100,000
- 6California1 in —
- 7Iowa1 in —
- 8Massachusetts1 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. Elenore has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Elenore around the world
Where Elenore 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 & Wales1996–2024#4,844in 2024
- France2004–2017#6,330in 2017
- Canada2018–2020#3,347in 2020
- South Australia1950–1998#710in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.
Elenore by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elenore
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elenore
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.