How Many People Are Named Eleanore?
people named Eleanore are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 82,997 people in the US has this name
Based on 18,724 babies named Eleanore in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
768 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of ELEANOR.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Eleanore in English. Counting Eleanore and these spellings together, about 153,778 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Eleanore in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Eleanore alive today is about 44 years old, and 48% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 81 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Eleanore first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1921, to 768 babies. In 2025, 156 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Eleanore has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #225, in 1916. In 2025 it ranked #1,398.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,398 |
| Best rank | #225 (1916) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #260 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Eleanore alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Eleanore were born in New York than in any other state: about 304 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Eleanore was given 4.1 times as often in Wisconsin, 2.9 times in Michigan and 2.7 times in Illinois.
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