Eleanore
Eleanore is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 142 births. Its best rank was 225th, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1420.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1921768 births
- Best rank
- #225in 1916
- Since 1880
- 18,567people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,567 girls have been named Eleanore in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 768 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 34%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Eleanore | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 107 | |
| 1890s | 278 | |
| 1900s | 613 | |
| 1910s | 4,807 | |
| 1920s | 6,319 | |
| 1930s | 2,628 | |
| 1940s | 963 | |
| 1950s | 434 | |
| 1960s | 198 | |
| 1970s | 138 | |
| 1980s | 139 | |
| 1990s | 215 | |
| 2000s | 386 | |
| 2010s | 761 | |
| 2020s | 581 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Eleanore was the 235th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Eleanore
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elinorepeak 1917
- Murielpeak 1922
- Alverapeak 1918
- Elinorpeak 1920
- Berniecepeak 1918
- Evelynepeak 1922
- Marybellepeak 1923
- Elverapeak 1921
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.