Elynor
#9,030 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elynor has been given to 502 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #9,030 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Elynor, 2025
1 in 301,000
Elynor 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Elynor?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,030
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elynor 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elynor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elynors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elynor was born before 1926 — so the typical Elynor is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 77
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (151).
Is Elynor 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
- +6,952
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +6,776
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,017
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.83×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 44.0%
- Peak was 1919 (25)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 53.1% average annual change
Spellings of Elynor
Elynor is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 84.9% against Elynor's 0.13%.
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 Elynor is used
Across 1910–2025, Elynor was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,128,390 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 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. Elynor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Elynor around the world
Where Elynor 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 & Wales1997–1997#3,824in 1997
- France2015–2015#7,240in 2015
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Elynor by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elynor
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elynor
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.