Meaning not yet researched.
Elanor: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 127 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,618 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,618 in 2023; #1,635 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elanor in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,635 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,618.
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Elanor: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 127 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,618 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 129 (2023).
In 2025, 127 US girls were named Elanor, making it the 1,635th most common girls’ name of the year, up 147 places from #1,782 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 113 girls named Elanor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,618, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 129. For comparison, it was #2,860 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elanor in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 8 babies. In all, 1,930 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 645 babies named Elanor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 872 US girls were named Elanor; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,656 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elanor ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #422 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eleanor (337,323 babies since 1880), Elinor (21,640 babies since 1880), Eleanore (18,724 babies since 1880) and Elinore (2,370 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Elanor in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 5 | #422 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #663 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #698 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #844 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,233 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,268 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,518 | #1,519 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,745 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #2,269 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,229 | #3,131 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 2023 | 129 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,981 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,490 | — | — |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,485 | — | — |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,151 | — | — |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,624 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,426 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,261 | — | — |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,296 | — | — |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,612 | — | — |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,617 | — | — |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,454 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,732 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,865 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,184 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,395 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,395 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,186 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,845 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,233 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,929 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,460 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,963 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,214 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,804 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,497 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,948 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,851 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,058 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,517 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,890 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,627 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,695 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,962 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,049 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,183 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,368 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,978 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,537 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,767 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,800 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,320 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,090 | — | — |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,536 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,569 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,867 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,826 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,344 | — | — |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,753 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,776 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,388 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).