In 2025, 156 US girls were named Eleanore, making it the 1,398th most common girls’ name of the year, up 115 places from #1,513 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 143 girls named Eleanore in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #225, reached in 1916. The most girls given the name in a single year was 768, in 1921. For comparison, it was #2,129 in 2015 and #1,226 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eleanore in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 18,724 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 6,319 babies named Eleanore.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,129 US girls were named Eleanore; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,303 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eleanore ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #503 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), Elinore (2,370 babies since 1880), Elenor (2,268 babies since 1880) and Elanor (1,930 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ellenore are summarised on this page.