Elinor
Elinor is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 144 births. Its best rank was 252nd, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1440.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920656 births
- Best rank
- #252in 1916
- Since 1880
- 21,496people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,496 girls have been named Elinor in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 656 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 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elinor | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 137 | |
| 1890s | 277 | |
| 1900s | 656 | |
| 1910s | 4,010 | |
| 1920s | 5,761 | |
| 1930s | 3,762 | |
| 1940s | 1,829 | |
| 1950s | 837 | |
| 1960s | 417 | |
| 1970s | 217 | |
| 1980s | 232 | |
| 1990s | 405 | |
| 2000s | 733 | |
| 2010s | 1,424 | |
| 2020s | 799 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Elinor was the 257th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Elinor
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alenepeak 1920
- Dorothypeak 1924
- Genevapeak 1924
- Marianpeak 1924
- Elinorepeak 1917
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Florenepeak 1919
- Eleanorepeak 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.