Ellenor
Ellenor was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,687 among girls’ names; 701 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellenor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ellenor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ellenor is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ellenor?
#4,687 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellenor rose from #8,598 in 2015 to #4,687 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 18.0 per million.
29 babies in 2019, the peak
Ellenor peaked in 2019, when 29 girls were given it, #4,685 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,687 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,234 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,601 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,284 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,362 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,057 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,685 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,917 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,615 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,237 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,598 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,248 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,484 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,559 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,469 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,527 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,909 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,952 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,086 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,696 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,417 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,945 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,809 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,606 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,074 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,173 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,096 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,453 | 3.6 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,191 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,101 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,649 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,522 | 5.6 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,202 | 6.8 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,521 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,887 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,993 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,896 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,515 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,544 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,931 | 8.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,241 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,192 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,362 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,518 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,768 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,472 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,253 | 7.8 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,108 | 8.4 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,174 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,204 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,980 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,831 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,938 | 17.0 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,631 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,939 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,566 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,019 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,889 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,430 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,781 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,390 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,888 | 17.9 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,032 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,726 | 20.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellenor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellenor has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellenor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellenor, and how old are they?
An estimated 406 Americans named Ellenor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 462 people named Ellenor (460 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 313 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 366,251 babies since 1880, Ellenor is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 8,100 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 Ellenor
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 Ellenor and names like it
- Compare Ellenor and EleanorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEllenor peaked in 2019.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Ellenor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ellenor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.