Elenora
Elenora is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 490th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1917119 births
- Best rank
- #490in 1888
- Since 1880
- 3,614people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,614 girls have been named Elenora in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 119 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 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elenora | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 116 | |
| 1890s | 248 | |
| 1900s | 333 | |
| 1910s | 714 | |
| 1920s | 826 | |
| 1930s | 416 | |
| 1940s | 238 | |
| 1950s | 155 | |
| 1960s | 78 | |
| 1970s | 31 | |
| 1980s | 17 | |
| 1990s | 7 | |
| 2000s | 29 | |
| 2010s | 221 | |
| 2020s | 185 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Elenora was the 627th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Elenora
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vellapeak 1915
- Elsiepeak 1918
- Ednapeak 1918
- Delphiapeak 1924
- Elviepeak 1917
- Elmapeak 1918
- Athapeak 1918
- Eulapeak 1919
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.