Elleanor Girl
How popular is Elleanor?
#3,249 girl name in 2025
48 baby girls were named Elleanor in the US in 2025, making it the 3249th most popular girl name.
Elleanor popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,249 for girls (▲ 446 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 48 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+60% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,583 in 2015, #2,850 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2020 (57 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,850 in 2020 |
| First recorded | 1915 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Elleanor counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Eleanor family of names ranked #18 for girls in 2025 (#21 the year before), with 7,955 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Eleanor | 7,649 | 96% |
| Eleanore | 156 | 2% |
| Elleanor | 48 | 1% |
| Elenor | 41 | 1% |
| Ellenor | 29 | 0% |
| Elenore | 16 | 0% |
| Ellenore | 16 | 0% |
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 Elleanor is most popular
Babies named Elleanor per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Elleanor by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,272 |
| 1920s | 23 | #3,741 |
| 1930s | 6 | #3,740 |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,620 |
| 1990s | 9 | #8,761 |
| 2000s | 90 | #6,808 |
| 2010s | 293 | #3,613 |
| 2020s | 288 | #2,850 |
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Questions
- Is Elleanor a boy or girl name?
- Elleanor is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Elleanor were girls.
- How popular is the name Elleanor?
- 48 baby girls were named Elleanor in the US in 2025, making it the 3249th most popular girl name.
- When was Elleanor most popular?
- Elleanor peaked in 2020, when 57 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,850 in 2020.
- How many people are named Elleanor?
- 719 babies have been named Elleanor in the US since 1880. We estimate about 683 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Elleanor most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Elleanor was most common in Tennessee, at 0.0 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.