Ellinor
Ellinor was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,799 among girls’ names; 690 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellinor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ellinor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ellinor is “a female given name.”
A rare spelling variant of Elinor or Eleanor.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ellinor?
#4,799 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellinor rose from #5,023 in 2015 to #4,799 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.1 to 17.4 per million.
37 babies in 2018, the peak
Ellinor peaked in 2018, when 37 girls were given it, #3,946 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,799 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,587 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,216 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,313 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,950 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,035 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,686 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,946 | 21.8 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,514 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,453 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,023 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,051 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,184 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,943 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,321 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,543 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,441 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,989 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,037 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,016 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,168 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,947 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,880 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,214 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,326 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,730 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,861 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,189 | 4.0 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,650 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,354 | 4.1 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,872 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,831 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,093 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,530 | 4.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,456 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,010 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,783 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,927 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,366 | 7.5 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,139 | 5.8 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,540 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,825 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,406 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,415 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,096 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,794 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,097 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,485 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,486 | 11.8 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,105 | 9.0 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,409 | 27.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellinor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellinor has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellinor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellinor, and how old are they?
An estimated 554 Americans named Ellinor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 505 people named Ellinor (501 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 379 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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 366,240 babies since 1880, Ellinor is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 8,099 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 Ellinor
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 Ellinor and names like it
- Compare Ellinor and EleanorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEllinor peaked in 2018.
- Washington’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellinor since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Ellinor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ellinor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.