Eleonore
Eleonore was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,000 among girls’ names; 1,088 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eleonore by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eleonore mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Eleonore is “a female given name, equivalent to English Eleanor”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eleonore?
#8,000 among girls’ names, 2025
Eleonore fell from #6,804 in 2015 to #8,000 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 8.1 per million.
33 babies in 1923, the peak
Eleonore peaked in 1923, when 33 girls were given it, #1,402 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,000 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,709 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,803 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,890 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,430 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,925 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,575 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,594 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,715 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,000 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,804 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,792 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,180 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,540 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,767 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,788 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,110 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,949 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,938 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,883 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,047 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,762 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,632 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,915 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,557 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,597 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,962 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,738 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,223 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,957 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,870 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,345 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,319 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,861 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,220 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,519 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,541 | 2.8 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,980 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,478 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,231 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,182 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,943 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,019 | 15.3 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,797 | 18.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,112 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,623 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,826 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,533 | 23.3 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,603 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,491 | 25.2 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,844 | 18.6 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,707 | 20.5 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,483 | 25.6 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,402 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,851 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,734 | 20.3 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,596 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,537 | 23.9 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,578 | 22.5 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,730 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,753 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,538 | 23.4 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,454 | 26.3 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,925 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,746 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,476 | 26.3 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,725 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,540 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,795 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,023 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,527 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,236 | 34.4 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,617 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,124 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,288 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,424 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,151 | 37.8 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,151 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,549 | 22.4 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,325 | 28.3 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,125 | 36.8 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,052 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 8 | #881 | 54.8 |
| 1882 | 5 | #948 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eleonore a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eleonore 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 Eleonore: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eleonore, and how old are they?
An estimated 415 Americans named Eleonore and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,226 people named Eleonore (1,226 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 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 38,029 babies since 1880, Eleonore is the seventh most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 654 babies (2.0%), again the seventh 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 Eleonore
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 Eleonore and names like it
- Compare Eleonore and EleanoreBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEleonore peaked in 1923.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eleonore since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Eleonore: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Eleonore.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eleonore alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.