Elinore
Elinore was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,225 among girls’ names; 2,370 Americans have been recorded with it since 1887 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elinore by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elinore?
#7,225 among girls’ names, 2025
Elinore rose from #7,733 in 2015 to #7,225 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 9.3 per million.
94 babies in 1917, the peak
Elinore peaked in 1917, when 94 girls were given it, #716 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,225 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,464 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,485 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,371 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,621 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,093 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,497 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,013 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,184 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,297 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,733 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,774 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,816 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,645 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,391 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,968 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,118 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,873 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,103 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,411 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,878 | 5.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,442 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,981 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,847 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,559 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,158 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,215 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,554 | 5.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,130 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,323 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,390 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,043 | 3.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,218 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,490 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,383 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,775 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,228 | 4.3 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,283 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,248 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,196 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,795 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,645 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,263 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,121 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,013 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,716 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,392 | 25.7 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,381 | 26.2 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,296 | 30.1 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,350 | 27.2 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,394 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 41 | #1,102 | 39.4 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,312 | 29.6 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,242 | 31.6 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,375 | 27.8 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,357 | 28.1 |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,095 | 39.4 |
| 1930 | 47 | #1,077 | 41.7 |
| 1929 | 57 | #951 | 51.0 |
| 1928 | 57 | #986 | 49.4 |
| 1927 | 80 | #817 | 67.1 |
| 1926 | 55 | #1,008 | 46.4 |
| 1925 | 68 | #899 | 55.9 |
| 1924 | 92 | #778 | 73.7 |
| 1923 | 84 | #794 | 69.6 |
| 1922 | 83 | #799 | 69.1 |
| 1921 | 93 | #758 | 75.4 |
| 1920 | 72 | #853 | 60.1 |
| 1919 | 77 | #801 | 68.1 |
| 1918 | 92 | #745 | 79.5 |
| 1917 | 94 | #716 | 86.9 |
| 1916 | 78 | #775 | 74.7 |
| 1915 | 68 | #799 | 69.1 |
| 1914 | 62 | #729 | 81.4 |
| 1913 | 41 | #825 | 65.6 |
| 1912 | 25 | #1,040 | 44.8 |
| 1911 | 40 | #690 | 95.6 |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,039 | 45.4 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,396 | 28.8 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,156 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,427 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,246 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,188 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,528 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,046 | 45.8 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,867 | 18.9 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,756 | 20.9 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,669 | 21.5 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,622 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,330 | 29.4 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,165 | 35.9 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,337 | 28.0 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,189 | 34.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elinore a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elinore has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elinore: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elinore, and how old are they?
An estimated 556 Americans named Elinore and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 10 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 844 people named Elinore (841 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 631 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above 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).
Where are babies named Elinore born?
The states with the most babies named Elinore are New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 332 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 198 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 85 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 71 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 62 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 59 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 58 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 51 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Elinore is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elinore is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.6 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 Elinore 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 49,795 babies since 1880, Elinore is the fourth most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 277 babies (5.4%), the fifth 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 Elinore
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 Elinore and names like it
- Compare Elinore and ElnoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElinore peaked in 1917.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elinore since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Elinore.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elinore alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.