In 2025, 95 US girls were named Eleonora, making it the 2,005th most common girls’ name of the year, up 560 places from #2,565 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 69 girls named Eleonora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #695, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 95, in 2025. For comparison, it was #4,327 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eleonora in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 8 babies. In all, 1,651 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 363 babies named Eleonora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 523 US girls were named Eleonora; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 95. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,919 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eleonora ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #878 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), Elnora (21,390 babies since 1880), Leonor (6,183 babies since 1880) and Elenora (3,661 babies since 1880).
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