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Ellinor

#4,799 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly other, through Elinor

Ellinor has been given to 690 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #4,799 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Ellinor, 2025

1 in 118,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ellinor: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly other, through Elinor

English

What Ellinor means

Ellinor belongs to the name family reached through Ellinor → Elinor → Eleanor. Its meaning is “other”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A rare spelling variant of Elinor or Eleanor.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ellinor (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ellinor is used in English, Danish, Estonian, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elinor and Eleanor.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 690 girls were recorded with the name Ellinor between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,409 in 1898.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,035 in 2020 to #4,799 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,023 in 2015 to #4,799 in 2025.

How common is Ellinor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,799
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ellinor 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ellinor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ellinors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ellinor was born before 2015 — so the typical Ellinor is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
542
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Choose a decade

2010s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (241).

Is Ellinor 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
−212
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−764
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+224
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.7%
Peak was 2018 (37)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,409
1898

Spellings of Ellinor

Ellinor is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 87.7% against Ellinor's 0.18%.

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 Ellinor is used

Across 1910–2025, Ellinor was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 551,915 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 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. Ellinor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ellinor around the world

Where Ellinor 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
    1996–2020
    #2,843
    in 2020
  • France
    2003–2025
    #6,870
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #7
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1969–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ellinor by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,799
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 764
Best rank ever
#1,409
1898
Peak year
2018
37 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
690
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Ellinor

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

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Sibling names for Ellinor

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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