Elinora
#13,687 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elinora has been given to 329 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #13,687 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Elinora, 2025
1 in 553,000
Elinora 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Elinora?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,687
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elinora 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elinora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elinoras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elinora was born before 1933 — so the typical Elinora is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 26.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 122
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Elinora 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
- −1,152
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,299
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,522
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 42.9%
- Peak was 1927 (14)
- Years since peak
- 98
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.1% average annual change
Spellings of Elinora
Elinora is not the most common spelling — Lenora is, with 28.1% against Elinora's 0.25%.
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.
Elinora around the world
Where Elinora 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.
- France2024–2024#7,188in 2024
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Elinora by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elinora
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elinora
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.