Elenore
Feminine
Eleanor of Aquitaine was queen of France, then queen of England, went on crusade, was imprisoned by her second husband for sixteen years, outlived most of her ten children and was still governing at eighty. Almost every English Eleanor descends from her name.
How old is the name Elenore?
Elenore first appears in US birth records in 1887 — 138 years ago. The typical Elenore alive today was born around 1926, making them about 99 years old. About 600 people named Elenore are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elenore most popular?
Elenore peaked in 1924, reaching #822 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 6,016 places below that high. See the whole 1924 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Alienor to Elenore
The story of Elenore
Eleanor, born about 1122, inherited Aquitaine at fifteen, married Louis VII of France, accompanied him on the Second Crusade, had the marriage annulled, and married Henry Plantagenet eight weeks later; two of her sons became kings of England. She was imprisoned from 1173 for supporting their rebellion and released only on Henry's death, after which she governed as regent. Her name came to England with her and became one of the standard English women's names. Elenore is a phonetic American respelling that drops the a, and its best year in United States records is 1924.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name's origin is not recovered. It appears in Occitan as Alienor, and the medieval explanation that it is Latin alia Aenor, the other Aenor, after her mother, is a story rather than an etymology. Derivations from Germanic and from Arabic have both been proposed. The connection to Helen is a later assimilation and is not the source.
How the name formed
- Alienor
- Eleanor
- Elenore
Related forms: Eleanor · Alienor · Leonor · Eleonora · Eleonore
Pronouncing Elenore
EL-uh-nor
Three syllables with the stress at the front. German Eleonore is four syllables with the weight on the third, which sounds like a different name.
Nicknames for Elenore
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1887
- Most girls named
- 192564 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #822reached in 1924
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%16 in 2025, from 16
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Elenore in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eleanor in English — spelling variant
- Alienor in French — same name
- Leonor in Spanish — same name
- Eleonora in Italian — same name
- Eleonore in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Ohio.
Elenores among us
people named Elenore are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Elenore
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Elenore
- #6838
- Elenore on the 2025 chart
- #928
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Elenore went to 16 girls in 2025, but Ellenore is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 32, which makes it the 928th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,910 places above the chart.
- Elenore16
- Ellenore16
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,454 for Elenore itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Odette test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Elenore's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Odette climbed just as high around 1905, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Odette's path sketches the road Elenore is walking now.
Elenore sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Elenore beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Elenore in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages behind it.
- Nora and Ellie are both complete and currently popular short forms.
- Recognized across every European language in some form.
- Eleanor is the standard English spelling and will be written for you.
- Elenore, Elinor and Eleanore all circulate.
- The name's own meaning is genuinely unrecovered.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elenores are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Elenore are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Elenore?
- Elenore is the most-used spelling in US records — 16 of the 32 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ellenore.
- How popular is the name Elenore in 2025?
- Elenore ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Elenore?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Elenore — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Elenore with classmates?
- Elenore will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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