Elleanor
Elleanor was given to 48 girls in 2025, #3,265 among girls’ names; 719 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elleanor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elleanor?
#3,265 among girls’ names, 2025
Elleanor rose from #4,626 in 2015 to #3,265 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 29.9 per million.
57 babies in 2020, the peak
Elleanor peaked in 2020, when 57 girls were given it, #2,859 among girls’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,265 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,712 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,484 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,492 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,128 | 31.7 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,859 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,094 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,630 | 24.7 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,511 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,873 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,626 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,028 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,083 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,965 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,207 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,010 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,889 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,881 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,036 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,870 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,638 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,681 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,629 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,930 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,776 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,981 | 5.1 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,829 | 3.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,886 | 5.7 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,871 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,442 | 5.0 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,302 | 4.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,337 | 4.1 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,482 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elleanor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elleanor has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elleanor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elleanor, and how old are they?
An estimated 680 Americans named Elleanor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 487 people named Elleanor (486 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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).
How common is the spelling Elleanor?
Elleanor is a less common spelling of Eleanor: SSA has recorded 719 Elleanor and 337,323 Eleanor since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 345,177 babies since 1880, Elleanor is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 8,034 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Elleanor
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 Elleanor and names like it
- Compare Elleanor and EleanorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElleanor peaked in 2020.
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- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Elleanor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elleanor alive today were born 2013-2025.
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