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Ellenor

#4,687 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Ellenor has been given to 701 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #4,687 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Ellenor, 2025

1 in 114,000

Ellenor over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ellenor: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ellenor means

Ellenor is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Ellenor is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 701 girls were recorded with the name Ellenor between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,726 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,057 in 2020 to #4,687 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,598 in 2015 to #4,687 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 Ellenor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,687
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ellenor 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellenor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ellenors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellenor was born before 1994 — so the typical Ellenor is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
376
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 21.1% of all recorded uses (148).

Is Ellenor 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
+1,547
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+370
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,911
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2019 (29)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,726
1908

Spellings of Ellenor

Ellenor is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 51.6% against Ellenor's 0.11%.

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.

Ellenor around the world

Where Ellenor 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1949–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ellenor by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,687
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 370
Best rank ever
#1,726
1908
Peak year
2019
29 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
701
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Ellenor

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

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Sibling names for Ellenor

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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