Aliénor

Locally spelled Alienor in FR France, US United States, DE Germany and 2 more.

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

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

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

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Alienor

• Portuguese given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil

  Also written Alienor

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Alienor

• Arabic name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Alienor

• Russian given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan

  Also written Алиенора, Alienor, Алиенор

15 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.

Aliénor is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, a female given name from Provençal, equivalent to English Eleanor

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Se Eleonora.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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.

• Aenor de Châtelleraultb. 1103FRnot in their usual nameMother of Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Aliénor de Vitréb. 1164Peerage person ID=4100
• Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittanyb. 1182GBnot in their usual name5th Countess of Richmond, heiress to England and Brittany de jure
• Eleanor of Brittanyb. 1275FRnot in their usual nameEleanor of Brittany (1275–1342), abbess of Fontevrault
• Aliénor de Commingesb. 1329FRFrench aristocrat
• Aliénor de Poitiersb. 1444FRwriter
• Aliénor Tricerrib. 1975CHSwiss tennis player
• Aliénor Debrocqb. 1983BEBelgian journalist
• Aliénor Rougeotb. 1999FRCanadian climate change activist
• Eleonore of Barnot in their usual nameconsort duchess of Lorraine

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Is Aliénor a male or female name?

Aliénor is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024).

What does the name Aliénor mean, and where does it come from?

French form of Eleanor/Eleonore; origin uncertain, often linked to Greek or Provençal forms. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).

What are other forms of the name Aliénor?

In the etymology graph, Eleanor, Nelly and Leonor are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Aliénor?

In French /a.lje.nɔʁ/ (Wiktionary).

In which country does Aliénor have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Aliénor in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alienor.

How common is the name Aliénor?

In Poland, the national register counted 10 people named Aliénor in 2026, about 1 in 3.8 million residents.