How Many People Are Named Elinor?
people named Elinor are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 49,213 people in the US has this name
Based on 21,640 babies named Elinor 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
656 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 Elinor in English. Counting Elinor and these spellings together, about 153,778 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Elinor in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Elinor alive today is about 44 years old, and 47% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 79 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Elinor first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1920, to 656 babies. In 2025, 142 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Elinor has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #252, in 1916. In 2025 it ranked #1,502.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,502 |
| Best rank | #252 (1916) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #274 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Elinor alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Elinor were born in New York than in any other state: about 758 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Elinor was given 3.5 times as often in Massachusetts, 2.6 times in Connecticut and 2.4 times in Maine.
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