Eléonore

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Eleonore in US United States.

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.

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Eléonore is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Éléonore, Elèonore, Eleonore

• French given name37 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Germany, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, German, Spanish

  Also written Eleonore, เอเล, Éléonore, Elèonore, เอ้เล่

• Russian given name120 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English

  Also written Элеонора, Елеонора, Eleonora, Элеанора, Eleanor

• Croatian given name14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States

  Also written Eleonore, Éléonore, Éleonore

22 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●(measured from records)

Eléonore 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, Peut venir d’Aliénor; étymologie discutée. Fête souvent associée à sainte Éléonore.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• French form of ELEANOR .

  as a word

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.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Eléonore de Rohan-Giéb. 1539Princess of Guéméné
• Christine Boyerb. 1771FRnot in their usual namefirst wife of Lucien Bonaparte (1771-1800)
• Eléonore Eugénie van Genabethb. 1819NLDutch painter
• Léocadie Dozeb. 1823FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1823–1859)
• Eléonore de Montesquioub. 1970FRFrench artist (born 1970)
• Eléonore Resonglesb. 1988FRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-8542-8433
• Eléonore Simonetb. 1997BEBelgian politician
• Eléonore KoctyBFBurkinabé actress
• Eléonore Mahmoudianscreenwriter
• Eléonore de Vendômecomtesse of Perigord

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●(measured from records)

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

Frequently asked questions

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

From Occitan Alienòr; origin uncertain, later linked to Greek 'other'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).

Is Eléonore a male or female name?

Eléonore 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 are other forms of the name Eléonore?

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

In which country does Eléonore have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Eléonore in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eléonore.

Where is Eléonore most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eléonore is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Eléonore?

In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,237 people named Eléonore, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.