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Eleonore

#8,000 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Eleanor

Eleonore has been given to 1,088 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #8,000 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Eleonore, 2025

1 in 255,000

Eleonore over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eleonore: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eleanor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eleonore means

Eleonore is a form of Eleanor.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Eleonore is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleanor.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,088 girls were recorded with the name Eleonore between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1923; its best national rank was #881 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,925 in 2020 to #8,000 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,804 in 2015 to #8,000 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 Eleonore?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,000
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eleonore 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eleonore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eleonores were born

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

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
388
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Choose a decade

1920s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (268).

Is Eleonore 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
−1,291
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,075
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,196
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.4%
Peak was 1923 (33)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#881
1887

Spellings of Eleonore

Eleonore is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 80.7% against Eleonore's 0.26%.

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 Eleonore is used

Across 1910–2025, Eleonore was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 292,517 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Eleonore has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eleonore around the world

Where Eleonore 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #92
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #177
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Eleonore by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,000
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,075
Best rank ever
#881
1887
Peak year
1923
33 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,088
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Eleonore

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

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Sibling names for Eleonore

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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