Eleanor

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eleanor is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Helen via Provencal Alienor; popular in England from Norman times, brought to Ireland by the Normans.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.6K◐
  • IEIreland1 in 2.2K
  • AUAustralia1 in 2.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈124K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
452 ●

1.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.8K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

EleanorLatin · English●1.5M records
엘리너Hangul · Korean●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Eleanor: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Eleanor
  1. Helenvia●
  2. Normantimes●

From Helen via Provencal Alienor; popular in England from Norman times, brought to Ireland by the Normans.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Eleanor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#258131,721107K rec.—672Eleanor229
US United States#373119,9121.2M rec.1 in 2.8K120KEleanor452
AU Australia#37051,22737K rec.—418Eleanor185
CA Canada#37332,79526K rec.—79Eleanor156
PH Philippines#87223,83322K rec.——Eleanor104
IT Italy#57710,54611K rec.—6Eleanor50
DE Germany—4,9104.6K rec.——Eleanor96
NL Netherlands—4,8523K rec.——Eleanor55
RU Russia—4,3014.3K rec.——Eleanor28
IE Ireland#2304,2183.9K rec.——Eleanor100
ZA South Africa#9843,9413.9K rec.——Eleanor64
EG Egypt—2,7362.7K rec.——Eleanor15

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Languages●

  • English1.5M85%
  • Spanish54K3%
  • 25K1%
  • French23K1%
  • German17K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,480,37785%
Spanish54,3213%
24,6611%
French22,6931%
German16,5271%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Eleanor is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name84K records spelled Eleanor5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Eléanor

  • a separate given name29K records spelled Eleanor4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Éleanor, Eléanor, Éléanor

  • French given name24K records spelled Eleanor6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Eléanor, Éléanor, Éleanor, Elèanor

  • Russian given name9.9K records spelled Eleanor134 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, German

    Also written Элеонора, Eleonora, Елеонора, Элеанора, Eleonóra

  • Spanish given name3.2K records spelled Eleanor64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Italy, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Eleonora, Ელეონორა, Ελεονωρα, Elinor, Eleonore

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Eleanor is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Se Eleonora.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, The light of the sun.

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  • In English, light of the sun

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  • In German, ) Eleanora, engl. Aussprache: [’elina], [elia'no:ra]: weibl. Vorn., englische

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.5K · 1920

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Eleanor in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880129
1881110
1882174
1883185
1884198
1885222
1886271
1887247
1888288
1889312
1890351
1891376
1892389
1893397
1894450
1895544
1896493
1897559
1898620
1899575
1900753
1901686
1902837
1903840
1904868
19051,041
19061,088
19071,155
19081,302
19091,460
19101,798
19112,035
19123,120
19133,938
19145,374
19157,036
19167,406
19177,669
19188,176
19197,611
19208,497
19218,054
19227,852
19237,772
19248,193
19257,724
19267,305
19276,963
19286,535
19295,865
19305,823
19315,255
19324,836
19335,106
19344,718
19354,166
19364,341
19374,275
19384,049
19393,810
19403,584
19413,250
19423,165
19432,729
19442,190
19451,876
19461,933
19471,853
19481,664
19491,517
19501,371
19511,296
19521,249
19531,254
19541,117
19551,043
19561,044
1957962
1958864
1959865
1960825
1961749
1962763
1963667
1964648
1965603
1966473
1967443
1968408
1969359
1970366
1971325
1972301
1973266
1974228
1975234
1976257
1977228
1978269
1979276
1980258
1981270
1982265
1983263
1984244
1985270
1986263
1987290
1988309
1989357
1990378
1991394
1992395
1993445
1994390
1995437
1996487
1997537
1998720
1999688
2000771
2001826
2002961
20031,007
20041,063
20051,237
20061,221
20071,272
20081,343
20091,486
20101,851
20112,085
20122,383
20133,013
20143,740
20154,442
20165,140
20175,549
20185,728
20196,198
20206,379
20217,099
20226,927
20236,765
20247,147
20257,649

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1000120014001600180020002200Eleanor of Aquitaine, b. 1124Eleanor H. Porter, b. 1868Eleanor Roosevelt, b. 1884June Allyson, b. 1917Margaret Burbidge, b. 1919Eleanor Parker, b. 1922Rosalynn Carter, b. 1927Margaret Atwood, b. 1939Eleanor Catton, b. 1985Rowan Blanchard, b. 2001
  • Eleanor of Aquitaineb. 1124FRQueen consort of France; Queen consort of England; suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine; patroness
  • Eleanor H. Porterb. 1868USAmerican novelist (1868–1920)
  • Eleanor Rooseveltb. 1884USAmerican diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1884–1962)
  • June Allysonb. 1917USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1917–2006)
  • Margaret Burbidgeb. 1919GBnot in their usual nameBritish-born American astronomer (1919–2020)
  • Eleanor Parkerb. 1922USAmerican actress (1922-2013)
  • Rosalynn Carterb. 1927USnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
  • Margaret Atwoodb. 1939CAnot in their usual nameCanadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
  • Eleanor Cattonb. 1985CANew Zealand writer
  • Rowan Blanchardb. 2001USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 92 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Eleanor
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020120K#467
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20257.6K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.6K#594
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—827#1,946
GB United KingdomONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024)2024672#67
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—588#2,011
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024550—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—548#2,367
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—446—
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)2023418—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—414#650
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020324—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 962 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eleanor?
We estimate roughly 124 thousand people bear Eleanor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Eleanor have the most bearers?
Eleanor is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled eleanor.
How common is Eleanor compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Eleanor is the 258th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Eleanor a male or female name?
Eleanor is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Eleanor mean?
Recorded meaning: From Helen via Provencal Alienor; popular in England from Norman times, brought to Ireland by the Normans.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eleanor” — the 258th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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