Elinore
Elinore is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 690th, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191794 births
- Best rank
- #690in 1911
- Since 1887
- 2,355people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,355 girls have been named Elinore in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 94 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elinore | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 25 | |
| 1900s | 82 | |
| 1910s | 595 | |
| 1920s | 741 | |
| 1930s | 343 | |
| 1940s | 181 | |
| 1950s | 66 | |
| 1960s | 7 | |
| 1970s | 8 | |
| 1990s | 43 | |
| 2000s | 49 | |
| 2010s | 129 | |
| 2020s | 76 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Elinore was the 716th 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 Elinore
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eleanorepeak 1921
- Oletapeak 1920
- Dorothapeak 1921
- Alverapeak 1918
- Berniecepeak 1918
- Orenepeak 1919
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Elinorpeak 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.