Meaning not yet researched.
Elenor: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #652 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #652 in 1884; #3,660 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elenor in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,660 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #652.
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Elenor: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #652 in 1884 · most girls in one year: 67 (1921).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Elenor, making it the 3,660th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,839 places from #5,499 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 23 girls named Elenor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #652, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 67, in 1921. For comparison, it was #11,162 in 2015 and #2,275 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elenor in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 7 babies. In all, 2,268 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 522 babies named Elenor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 249 US girls were named Elenor; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Elenor in the open dataset we use.
Elenor is listed as a nickname for Leonore.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,499 | — | — |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,388 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,704 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,537 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,363 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,073 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,348 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,186 | — | — |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,730 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,162 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,484 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,870 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,914 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,909 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,896 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,114 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,953 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,345 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,470 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,414 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,680 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,510 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,200 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,560 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,914 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,227 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,907 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,609 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,553 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,864 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,611 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,635 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,630 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,649 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,585 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,805 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,073 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,415 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,015 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,066 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,346 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,543 | — | — |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,388 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,966 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,795 | — | — |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,836 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,196 | — | — |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1929 | 54 | #983 | — | — |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1926 | 50 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1925 | 52 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1923 | 61 | #943 | — | — |
| 1922 | 61 | #954 | — | — |
| 1921 | 67 | #911 | — | — |
| 1920 | 58 | #960 | — | — |
| 1919 | 54 | #969 | — | — |
| 1918 | 61 | #916 | — | — |
| 1917 | 55 | #935 | — | — |
| 1916 | 63 | #859 | — | — |
| 1915 | 44 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1914 | 42 | #904 | — | — |
| 1913 | 33 | #933 | — | — |
| 1912 | 33 | #876 | — | — |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1910 | 22 | #922 | — | — |
| 1909 | 18 | #971 | — | — |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1889 | 10 | #857 | — | — |
| 1884 | 11 | #652 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #769 | — | — |
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).