Elanor
Elanor was given to 127 girls in 2025, #1,635 among girls’ names; 1,930 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Elanor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elanor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elanor?
#1,635 among girls’ names, 2025
Elanor rose from #2,860 in 2015 to #1,635 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 34.2 to 79.0 per million.
129 babies in 2023, the peak
Elanor peaked in 2023, when 129 girls were given it, #1,618 among girls’ names. The 127 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,635 | 79.0 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,782 | 69.7 |
| 2023 | 129 | #1,618 | 80.4 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,978 | 60.4 |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,106 | 54.8 |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,107 | 53.8 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,688 | 38.1 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,064 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,027 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,981 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,860 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,488 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,483 | 25.6 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,149 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,623 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,425 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,260 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,295 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,805 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,611 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,613 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,113 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,449 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,728 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,858 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,176 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,388 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,388 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,181 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,840 | 4.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,227 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,921 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,454 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,957 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,209 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,799 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,495 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,946 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,849 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,056 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,515 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,889 | 6.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,625 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,693 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,961 | 4.6 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,048 | 2.6 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,182 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,366 | 3.1 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,977 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,535 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,754 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,765 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,798 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,319 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,868 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,088 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,611 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,534 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,567 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,942 | 16.0 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,065 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,785 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,607 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,865 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,401 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,226 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,124 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,206 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,001 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,460 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,094 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,825 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,564 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,625 | 10.8 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,749 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,991 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,968 | 16.7 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,291 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,315 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,131 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,342 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,752 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,774 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,386 | 12.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elanor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elanor has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elanor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elanor, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 1,930 Americans ever recorded as Elanor. The median Elanor alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,601 people named Elanor (1,596 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,024 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 48 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 407 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 366,269 babies since 1880, Elanor is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 127 of their 8,119 babies (1.6%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elanor
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elanor and names like it
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