girls:
21.3k births since 1880
#992 (83rd percentile)
boys:
27 births since 1921
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
21.3k births since 1880
#1747 (77th percentile)
The name Elnora is the #1,747 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,348 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #992 (82.7% percentile) for all time with 21,321 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1921.
Elnora has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1921 for boys).
The name Elnora has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elnora reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 58.9% percentile (ranked #251) with 493 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 610 births per million (ranked 42.7% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Elnora ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 3.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Elnora reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #548) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1935.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elnora".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Elnora. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.6% confident that Elnora is pronounced as ehl-NAW-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-NAW-ruh, at 17.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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