Eleanor — #14 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Eleanor

The Social Security Administration has registered 328,990 babies named Eleanor between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Eleanor currently holds the #14 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 8,497 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Eleanor performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 74,760 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Eleanor shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 36,959 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Eleanor in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Eleanor in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 328,990 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.