girls:
3.6k births since 1880
#2877 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1880
#4570 (41st percentile)
The name Elenora is the #4,570 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,586 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 40.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,877 (49.7% percentile) for all time with 3,586 births since 1880.
Elenora has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Elenora is available in 115 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Elenora reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 19.4% percentile (ranked #465) with 106 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 141 births per million (ranked 9.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elenora ranks #910 for girls (3.9% percentile) with 24 births per million, which is 17.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elenora".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Elenora", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 8 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Eleanora" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Eleanora..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Elenora. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.8% confident that Elenora is pronounced as EH-luh-NAW-ruh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-luh-NAW-ruh, at 37.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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