Elenor
Elenor is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. Its best rank was 652nd, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192167 births
- Best rank
- #652in 1884
- Since 1883
- 2,228people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,228 girls have been named Elenor in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 67 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elenor | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | |
| 1890s | 70 | |
| 1900s | 96 | |
| 1910s | 426 | |
| 1920s | 522 | |
| 1930s | 287 | |
| 1940s | 173 | |
| 1950s | 127 | |
| 1960s | 90 | |
| 1970s | 43 | |
| 1980s | 6 | |
| 1990s | 33 | |
| 2000s | 55 | |
| 2010s | 135 | |
| 2020s | 137 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Elenor was the 911th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Elenor
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Philomenapeak 1922
- Rubypeak 1924
- Angelinepeak 1921
- Rosellapeak 1924
- Paulinepeak 1918
- Rozellapeak 1927
- Dorotheapeak 1920
- Odessapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.