Eleanora
Eleanora was given to 313 girls in 2025, #865 among girls’ names; 8,322 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,270 Americans named Eleanora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eleanora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eleanora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eleanora is “a female given name, variant of Eleanor.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eleanora?
#865 among girls’ names, 2025
Eleanora rose from #1,471 in 2015 to #865 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.19 per 1,000.
313 babies in 2025, the peak
Eleanora peaked in 2025, when 313 girls were given it, #865 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 304 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 313 | #865 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 304 | #887 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 278 | #946 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 250 | #1,027 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 256 | #1,000 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 232 | #1,068 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 222 | #1,105 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 249 | #1,038 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 251 | #1,031 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 219 | #1,149 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (142)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 156 | #1,471 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,592 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,023 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,607 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,488 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,987 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,596 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,883 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,239 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,860 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,511 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,972 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,971 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,158 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,430 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,362 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,978 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,684 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,552 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,338 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,915 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,599 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,511 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,995 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,279 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,134 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,549 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,028 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,126 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,698 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,541 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,794 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,097 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,582 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,875 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,110 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,854 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,452 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,804 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,181 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,015 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,466 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,793 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,815 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,632 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,472 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,023 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,552 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,568 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 47 | #1,156 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 47 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 53 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 58 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 57 | #913 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 60 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 66 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 68 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 71 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 76 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 78 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 105 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 101 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 110 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1927 | 118 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1926 | 127 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 129 | #646 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 152 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1923 | 128 | #655 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 136 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 164 | #557 | 0.13 |
| 1920 | 148 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1919 | 153 | #557 | 0.14 |
| 1918 | 170 | #539 | 0.15 |
| 1917 | 127 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1916 | 174 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1915 | 153 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1914 | 126 | #497 | 0.17 |
| 1913 | 87 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1912 | 55 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 58 | #560 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 53 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1909 | 47 | #562 | 0.14 |
| 1908 | 47 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 29 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 39 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 42 | #531 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 41 | #514 | 0.15 |
| 1903 | 34 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 38 | #520 | 0.14 |
| 1901 | 23 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 41 | #525 | 0.14 |
| 1899 | 30 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1898 | 34 | #547 | 0.13 |
| 1897 | 33 | #513 | 0.14 |
| 1896 | 33 | #520 | 0.14 |
| 1895 | 24 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1894 | 30 | #527 | 0.13 |
| 1893 | 31 | #491 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 27 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 18 | #630 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 20 | #585 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 23 | #536 | 0.13 |
| 1888 | 17 | #617 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 13 | #642 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 14 | #614 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 19 | #489 | 0.14 |
| 1884 | 14 | #565 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 9 | #662 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 11 | #575 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 7 | #702 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 6 | #773 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eleanora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eleanora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 142 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eleanora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eleanora, and how old are they?
4,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 51% of the 8,322 Americans ever recorded as Eleanora. The median Eleanora alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,845 people named Eleanora (2,843 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,028 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 263 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 370 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 112 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 97 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 472 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,940 |
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).
Where are babies named Eleanora born?
The states with the most babies named Eleanora are New York, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 26 | #637 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 23 | #1,165 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #526 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 19 | #833 | 0.5× |
| California | 16 | #1,429 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 15 | #525 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 14 | #681 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 11 | #595 | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #534 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #921 | 0.3× |
Where Eleanora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eleanora is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eleanora with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,254 babies since 1880, Eleanora is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 313 of their 690 babies (45%), the 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 Eleanora
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 Eleanora and names like it
- Compare Eleanora and ElnoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEleanora peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eleanora since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Eleanora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eleanora alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.