Elenora
Elenora was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,351 among girls’ names; 3,661 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elenora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elenora?
#3,351 among girls’ names, 2025
Elenora rose from #8,125 in 2015 to #3,351 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 28.6 per million.
119 babies in 1917, the peak
Elenora peaked in 1917, when 119 girls were given it, #627 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,351 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,801 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,609 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,135 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,505 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,947 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,737 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,175 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,086 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,277 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,125 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,264 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,253 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,556 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,316 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,966 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,109 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,340 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,690 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,392 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,453 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,481 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,320 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,751 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,646 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,510 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,714 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,592 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,480 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,066 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,358 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,758 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,843 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,089 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,861 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,722 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,159 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,710 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,724 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,923 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,084 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,875 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,621 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,772 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,454 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,206 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,035 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 43 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 48 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,211 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,220 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 52 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 55 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 56 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 74 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 63 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 69 | #895 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 90 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 86 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 74 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 101 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 101 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 112 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 84 | #767 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 89 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 119 | #627 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 96 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 88 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 72 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 62 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 46 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 25 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 33 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 31 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 42 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1907 | 39 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 30 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 39 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1904 | 23 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 28 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 35 | #548 | 0.13 |
| 1901 | 30 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 36 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 35 | #500 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 30 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 31 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 26 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1895 | 25 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1894 | 23 | #611 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 23 | #599 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 21 | #622 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 15 | #703 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 19 | #605 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 16 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 26 | #490 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 17 | #541 | 0.12 |
| 1886 | 19 | #511 | 0.13 |
| 1885 | 10 | #704 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 6 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 8 | #713 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 6 | #764 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 8 | #642 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elenora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elenora 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 Elenora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elenora, and how old are they?
An estimated 953 Americans named Elenora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 7 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 947 people named Elenora (942 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 929 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 Elenora born?
The states with the most babies named Elenora are Louisiana, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 163 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Texas | 154 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 97 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 75 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 46 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 42 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Elenora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elenora is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 2.6 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 Elenora 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 59,012 babies since 1880, Elenora is the fourth most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 671 babies (6.9%), again the fourth most given.
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 Elenora
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 Elenora and names like it
- Compare Elenora and ElnoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElenora peaked in 1917.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elenora since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Elenora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elenora alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.