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Elinore

#7,225 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Elinore has been given to 2,370 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #7,225 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Elinore, 2025

1 in 221,000

Elinore over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elinore: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elinore means

Elinore is a given name.

The naming story behind Elinore

Wikidata records Elinore as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q61994329, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,370 girls were recorded with the name Elinore between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 94 in 1917; its best national rank was #690 in 1911.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,093 in 2020 to #7,225 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,733 in 2015 to #7,225 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.

How common is Elinore?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,225
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elinore 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elinore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elinores were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elinore was born before 1925 — so the typical Elinore is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
393
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (741).

Is Elinore 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
−761
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+868
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+508
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.0%
Peak was 1917 (94)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#690
1911

Spellings of Elinore

Elinore is not the most common spelling — Lenore is, with 22.6% against Elinore's 2.3%.

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 Elinore is used

Across 1910–2025, Elinore was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 81,234 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 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. Elinore has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elinore around the world

Where Elinore 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    1999–2025
    #4,746
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Notable people named Elinore

People whose public names include Elinore, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Elinore by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,225
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 868
Best rank ever
#690
1911
Peak year
1917
94 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,370
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Elinore

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

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Names with a curve like Elinore

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

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Sibling names for Elinore

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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