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Eleonor

#2,659 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Eleanor

Eleonor has been given to 790 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #2,659 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Eleonor, 2025

1 in 51,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eleonor: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Eleanor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eleonor means

Eleonor is a variant of Eleanor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Eleonor → 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, 790 girls were recorded with the name Eleonor between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,935 in 1914.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,012 in 2020 to #2,659 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,108 in 2015 to #2,659 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eleonor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,659
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eleonor 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 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eleonor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eleonors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eleonor was born before 2009 — so the typical Eleonor is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
522
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Choose a decade

2020s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (234).

Is Eleonor 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
+528
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,353
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,449
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (65)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,935
1914

Spellings of Eleonor

Eleonor is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 80.4% against Eleonor's 0.19%.

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 Eleonor is used

Across 1910–2025, Eleonor was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 306,718 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Eleonor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eleonor around the world

Where Eleonor 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
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1970–2025
    #2,916
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Eleonor by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,659
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,353
Best rank ever
#1,935
1914
Peak year
2025
65 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
790
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Eleonor

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

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Sibling names for Eleonor

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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