Meaning not yet researched.
Elinor: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 142 in 2025. Its best rank was #252 in 1916.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #252 in 1916; #1,502 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elinor in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,502 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1916, at #252.
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Elinor: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 142 girls in 2025. Peak: #252 in 1916 · most girls in one year: 656 (1920).
In 2025, 142 US girls were named Elinor, making it the 1,502nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #1,492 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 146 girls named Elinor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #252, reached in 1916. The most girls given the name in a single year was 656, in 1920. For comparison, it was #1,410 in 2015 and #973 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elinor in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 9 babies with the name. In all, 21,640 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,761 babies named Elinor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,601 US girls were named Elinor; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 176. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,319 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elinor ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #743 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 Ellinore, Elynore and Eliner are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ellinore (151), Elynore (144), Eliner (10), Elinar (5).
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 Elinor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 6 | #743 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #825 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #827 | #887 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #917 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #920 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,185 | #1,823 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,357 | #1,907 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,519 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,828 | #2,253 |
| California | 11 | #1,868 | #1,548 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 142 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 2024 | 146 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 2023 | 164 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 2022 | 176 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 2021 | 172 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 2020 | 144 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 2019 | 162 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 2018 | 159 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 2017 | 165 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 2016 | 171 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 2015 | 165 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 2014 | 144 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 2013 | 120 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 2009 | 96 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,767 | — | — |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,897 | — | — |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,416 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,272 | — | — |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,826 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,379 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,509 | — | — |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,946 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,217 | — | — |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,750 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,515 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,317 | — | — |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,673 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,033 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,701 | — | — |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,656 | — | — |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1958 | 55 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1957 | 65 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1956 | 80 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1955 | 89 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1954 | 76 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1953 | 100 | #946 | — | — |
| 1952 | 121 | #832 | — | — |
| 1951 | 110 | #856 | — | — |
| 1950 | 87 | #973 | — | — |
| 1949 | 125 | #772 | — | — |
| 1948 | 129 | #748 | — | — |
| 1947 | 131 | #749 | — | — |
| 1946 | 155 | #633 | — | — |
| 1945 | 121 | #676 | — | — |
| 1944 | 162 | #576 | — | — |
| 1943 | 204 | #524 | — | — |
| 1942 | 262 | #458 | — | — |
| 1941 | 255 | #430 | — | — |
| 1940 | 285 | #407 | — | — |
| 1939 | 267 | #413 | — | — |
| 1938 | 301 | #385 | — | — |
| 1937 | 298 | #373 | — | — |
| 1936 | 340 | #339 | — | — |
| 1935 | 354 | #336 | — | — |
| 1934 | 409 | #310 | — | — |
| 1933 | 441 | #288 | — | — |
| 1932 | 378 | #326 | — | — |
| 1931 | 465 | #289 | — | — |
| 1930 | 509 | #296 | — | — |
| 1929 | 527 | #281 | — | — |
| 1928 | 523 | #287 | — | — |
| 1927 | 604 | #269 | — | — |
| 1926 | 607 | #271 | — | — |
| 1925 | 542 | #287 | — | — |
| 1924 | 595 | #268 | — | — |
| 1923 | 556 | #273 | — | — |
| 1922 | 539 | #277 | — | — |
| 1921 | 612 | #269 | — | — |
| 1920 | 656 | #257 | — | — |
| 1919 | 589 | #263 | — | — |
| 1918 | 571 | #265 | — | — |
| 1917 | 548 | #265 | — | — |
| 1916 | 580 | #252 | — | — |
| 1915 | 508 | #259 | — | — |
| 1914 | 358 | #275 | — | — |
| 1913 | 279 | #281 | — | — |
| 1912 | 268 | #275 | — | — |
| 1911 | 176 | #295 | — | — |
| 1910 | 133 | #344 | — | — |
| 1909 | 116 | #336 | — | — |
| 1908 | 91 | #378 | — | — |
| 1907 | 100 | #355 | — | — |
| 1906 | 69 | #411 | — | — |
| 1905 | 61 | #430 | — | — |
| 1904 | 52 | #453 | — | — |
| 1903 | 40 | #505 | — | — |
| 1902 | 34 | #562 | — | — |
| 1901 | 41 | #469 | — | — |
| 1900 | 52 | #470 | — | — |
| 1899 | 27 | #597 | — | — |
| 1898 | 39 | #494 | — | — |
| 1897 | 34 | #500 | — | — |
| 1896 | 34 | #507 | — | — |
| 1895 | 24 | #628 | — | — |
| 1894 | 27 | #562 | — | — |
| 1893 | 34 | #457 | — | — |
| 1892 | 15 | #771 | — | — |
| 1891 | 20 | #595 | — | — |
| 1890 | 23 | #552 | — | — |
| 1889 | 24 | #519 | — | — |
| 1888 | 21 | #554 | — | — |
| 1887 | 11 | #704 | — | — |
| 1886 | 16 | #559 | — | — |
| 1885 | 18 | #508 | — | — |
| 1884 | 13 | #593 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #770 | — | — |
| 1882 | 10 | #609 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #642 | — | — |
| 1880 | 9 | #596 | — | — |
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).