Elenor
Elenor was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,659 among girls’ names; 2,268 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elenor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elenor?
#3,659 among girls’ names, 2025
Elenor rose from #11,157 in 2015 to #3,659 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 25.5 per million.
67 babies in 1921, the peak
Elenor peaked in 1921, when 67 girls were given it, #911 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,659 | 25.5 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,496 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,385 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,701 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,533 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,359 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,071 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,343 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,182 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,727 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,157 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,478 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,866 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,909 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,905 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,890 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,108 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,948 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,339 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,466 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,407 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,674 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,503 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,194 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,555 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,909 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,222 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,901 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,602 | 3.7 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,551 | 3.5 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,862 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,609 | 7.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,633 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,628 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,647 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,583 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,803 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,072 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,414 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,014 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,414 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,065 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,345 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,085 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,542 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,387 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,039 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,965 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,545 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,638 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,793 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,971 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,957 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,410 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,274 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,835 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,195 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,557 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,927 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,004 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,540 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,175 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,482 | 23.0 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,661 | 19.0 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,129 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,653 | 20.1 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,891 | 16.3 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,462 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,516 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,209 | 33.4 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,491 | 23.9 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,333 | 28.8 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,219 | 32.8 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,232 | 32.9 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,216 | 33.7 |
| 1929 | 54 | #983 | 48.4 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,511 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,111 | 39.4 |
| 1926 | 50 | #1,058 | 42.2 |
| 1925 | 52 | #1,053 | 42.7 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,192 | 35.2 |
| 1923 | 61 | #943 | 50.6 |
| 1922 | 61 | #954 | 50.8 |
| 1921 | 67 | #911 | 54.3 |
| 1920 | 58 | #960 | 48.4 |
| 1919 | 54 | #969 | 47.8 |
| 1918 | 61 | #916 | 52.7 |
| 1917 | 55 | #935 | 50.9 |
| 1916 | 63 | #859 | 60.3 |
| 1915 | 44 | #1,002 | 44.7 |
| 1914 | 42 | #904 | 55.1 |
| 1913 | 33 | #933 | 52.8 |
| 1912 | 33 | #876 | 59.1 |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,014 | 45.4 |
| 1910 | 22 | #922 | 55.5 |
| 1909 | 18 | #971 | 51.8 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,378 | 29.9 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,160 | 37.7 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,064 | 44.0 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,454 | 27.4 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,291 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,358 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,866 | 18.9 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,752 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,476 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,200 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,407 | 27.1 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,104 | 38.4 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,237 | 33.6 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,219 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,016 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,489 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,033 | 42.4 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,249 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 10 | #857 | 56.1 |
| 1884 | 11 | #652 | 85.3 |
| 1883 | 7 | #769 | 62.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elenor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elenor has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elenor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elenor, and how old are they?
An estimated 782 Americans named Elenor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 7 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,596 people named Elenor (1,585 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 750 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
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, Elenor is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 8,119 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Elenor
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 Elenor and names like it
- Compare Elenor and EleanorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElenor peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elenor since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Elenor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elenor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.