Elnor
Elnor was last recorded in 1952, when 8 babies were given it; 843 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elnor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elnor?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,233, in 1952; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1924, the peak
Elnor peaked in 1924, when 36 girls were given it, #1,364 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 8 | #4,233 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,007 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,054 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,478 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,091 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,089 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,171 | 4.6 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,912 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,674 | 18.5 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,296 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 10 | #2,796 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,775 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,142 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,588 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,071 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,563 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,020 | 15.3 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,739 | 19.8 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,461 | 25.3 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,817 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,718 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,457 | 25.1 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,373 | 27.7 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,737 | 20.1 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,788 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,542 | 23.8 |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,364 | 28.8 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,403 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,744 | 20.0 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,586 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,320 | 29.2 |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,354 | 29.2 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,462 | 25.1 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,615 | 21.3 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,547 | 23.0 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,453 | 25.4 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,313 | 30.2 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,189 | 35.2 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,558 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,395 | 28.7 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,450 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,118 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,203 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,160 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,036 | 16.9 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,970 | 18.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elnor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elnor has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elnor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elnor, and how old are they?
An estimated 108 Americans named Elnor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (13% of everyone recorded); the median is 85 years old and half are between 80 and 90. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 211 people named Elnor (194 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Elnor rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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, Elnor is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 8,100 babies recorded by SSA was a Elnor (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Elnor
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 Elnor and names like it
- Compare Elnor and EleanorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElnor peaked in 1924.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elnor since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Elnor.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Elnor alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with EMost given first.