Elinor Girl
How popular is Elinor?
#1,500 girl name in 2025
142 baby girls were named Elinor in the US in 2025, making it the 1500th most popular girl name.
Elinor popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,500 for girls (▼ 8 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 142 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-14% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,409 in 2015, #1,485 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1920 (656 girls) |
| Highest rank | #252 in 1916 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| 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 |
Elinor counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Elinor family of names ranked #999 for girls in 2025 (#993 the year before), with 202 babies in all.
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 Elinor is most popular
Babies named Elinor per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Massachusetts: 0.2 per 1,000 (23 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.2 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- Washington: 0.2 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.1 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Utah: 0.1 per 1,000 (11 girls)
Elinor by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 137 | #500 |
| 1890s | 277 | #455 |
| 1900s | 656 | #336 |
| 1910s | 4,010 | #252 |
| 1920s | 5,761 | #257 |
| 1930s | 3,762 | #287 |
| 1940s | 1,829 | #407 |
| 1950s | 836 | #830 |
| 1960s | 417 | #1,337 |
| 1970s | 217 | #2,398 |
| 1980s | 232 | #3,066 |
| 1990s | 405 | #2,255 |
| 2000s | 733 | #2,032 |
| 2010s | 1,424 | #1,371 |
| 2020s | 944 | #1,312 |
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Questions
- Is Elinor a boy or girl name?
- Elinor is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Elinor were girls.
- How popular is the name Elinor?
- 142 baby girls were named Elinor in the US in 2025, making it the 1500th most popular girl name.
- When was Elinor most popular?
- Elinor peaked in 1920, when 656 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #252 in 1916.
- How many people are named Elinor?
- 21,640 babies have been named Elinor in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,308 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 44.
- Where is Elinor most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Elinor was most common in Massachusetts, 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.