Elanor Girl
How popular is Elanor?
#1,631 girl name in 2025
127 baby girls were named Elanor in the US in 2025, making it the 1631st most popular girl name.
Elanor popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,631 for girls (▲ 148 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 127 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+108% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,846 in 2015, #2,100 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (129 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,614 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1913 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Elanor counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Elanor family of names ranked #1,024 for girls in 2025 (#1,143 the year before), with 195 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Elanor | 127 | 65% |
| Ellanor | 42 | 22% |
| Ellanore | 14 | 7% |
| Elanore | 6 | 3% |
| Elanur | 6 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Elanor is most popular
Babies named Elanor per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Indiana: 0.2 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- Idaho: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Virginia: 0.1 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- Michigan: 0.1 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Washington: 0.1 per 1,000 (16 girls)
Elanor by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 71 | #2,099 |
| 1920s | 129 | #1,952 |
| 1930s | 109 | #1,914 |
| 1940s | 69 | #2,571 |
| 1950s | 13 | #5,030 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,766 |
| 1970s | 46 | #5,775 |
| 1980s | 37 | #6,802 |
| 1990s | 56 | #7,297 |
| 2000s | 273 | #3,785 |
| 2010s | 477 | #2,681 |
| 2020s | 645 | #1,614 |
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Questions
- Is Elanor a boy or girl name?
- Elanor is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Elanor were girls.
- How popular is the name Elanor?
- 127 baby girls were named Elanor in the US in 2025, making it the 1631st most popular girl name.
- When was Elanor most popular?
- Elanor peaked in 2023, when 129 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,614 in 2023.
- How many people are named Elanor?
- 1,930 babies have been named Elanor in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,615 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Elanor most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Elanor was most common in Indiana, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.