girls:
843 births since 1904
#4873 (15th percentile)
overall:
843 births since 1904
#6896 (11th percentile)
The name Elnor is the #6,896 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 843 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 10.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,873 (14.7% percentile) for all time with 843 births since 1904.
Elnor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (first recorded for girls in 1904). Birth data for Elnor is available in 46 out of the 49 years between 1904 and 1952. 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, Elnor reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #579) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 38 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1952.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elnor".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Elnor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.7% confident that Elnor is pronounced as EHL-nor, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-ner, at 37.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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