Meaning not yet researched.
Elenore: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #824 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #824 in 1924; #6,918 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elenore in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,918 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #824.
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Elenore: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #824 in 1924 · most girls in one year: 82 (1924).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Elenore, making it the 6,918th most common girls’ name of the year, down 687 places from #6,231 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 19 girls named Elenore in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #824, reached in 1924. That year also had the most girls given the name: 82. For comparison, it was #5,710 in 2015 and #3,283 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elenore in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 5 babies. In all, 1,806 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 531 babies named Elenore.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 206 US girls were named Elenore; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 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 Elenore in the open dataset we use.
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 | 16 | #6,918 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,231 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,020 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,686 | — | — |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,753 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,409 | — | — |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,847 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,357 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,112 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,847 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,710 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,267 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,184 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,232 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,649 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,396 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,910 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,913 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,717 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,359 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,938 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,400 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,175 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,407 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,798 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,849 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,594 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,031 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,271 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,599 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,490 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,709 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,837 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,195 | — | — |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,591 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,261 | — | — |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1926 | 47 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1925 | 64 | #934 | — | — |
| 1924 | 82 | #824 | — | — |
| 1923 | 52 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1921 | 60 | #958 | — | — |
| 1920 | 55 | #992 | — | — |
| 1919 | 48 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1918 | 52 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1917 | 57 | #918 | — | — |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1915 | 56 | #878 | — | — |
| 1914 | 38 | #960 | — | — |
| 1913 | 31 | #964 | — | — |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,188 | — | — |
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).