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Leanora

#6,236 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Eleanora

Leanora has been given to 1,469 babies in the U.S. since 1897. In 2025 it ranked #6,236 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Leanora, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leanora: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Eleanora

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leanora means

Leanora is a short form of Eleanora.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Leanora → Eleanora → Eleanor. The family’s proposed meaning is “other”, recorded in English with the source elements alia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eleanora.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,469 girls were recorded with the name Leanora between 1897 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,215 in 1905.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,413 in 2020 to #6,236 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,250 in 2015 to #6,236 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 Leanora?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,236
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leanora 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leanora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leanoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leanora was born before 1952 — so the typical Leanora is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
778
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Choose a decade

1920s — 13.9% of all recorded uses (204).

Is Leanora 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
+1,987
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,177
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,014
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.9%
Peak was 1927 (28)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,215
1905

Spellings of Leanora

Leanora is not the most common spelling — Eleanor is, with 63.1% against Leanora's 0.28%.

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 Leanora is used

Across 1910–2025, Leanora was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 293,541 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 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. Leanora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leanora around the world

Where Leanora 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
    2013–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–1987
    #684
    in 1987

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

Leanora by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,236
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,177
Best rank ever
#1,215
1905
Peak year
1927
28 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,469
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Leanora

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

LeasiaTziporaTeodoraLeandraLeannahSephoraLeanorePandoraSonoraLealaZamoraTheadoraIsidoraEleonoraElioraHonoraElenoraSenoraEudoraIsadoraElloraLanoraLeahaKymora

Sibling names for Leanora

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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