Eleonora

given name · Latin script

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

Eleonora is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Italian, recorded as a female given name, equivalent to English Eleanor.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 846(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 888
  • USUnited States1 in 2.8Kas Eleanor

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Eleonora itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

120,071 named Eleanor, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
247 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 846 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EleonoraLatin(measured from records)
ЭлеонораCyrillic(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Элеонора in RU Russia and Елеонора in UA Ukraine.

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)

Italian, Romanian, etc. form of Eleanor; bright, shining one

Sources 1

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Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

How Eleonora is read(measured from records)

Eleonora is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish30%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Eleonora in Spanish.

  • Italian22%

    a female given name, equivalent to English Eleanor

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    dal gr. éleos o da altra base incerta

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • English13%

    Italian, Romanian, etc. form of Eleanor; bright, shining one

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • German11%

    a female given name, variant of Eleonore, equivalent to English Eleanor

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Eleonora Duse, italienische Schauspielerin

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Portuguese6.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Eleonora in Portuguese.

  • Ukrainian5.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Eleonora in Ukrainian.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Eleonora counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Eleonora is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—120,071as Eleanor1 in 2.8K120KEleonora247
IT Italy—≈70,000 est.≈1 in 888897Eleonora125
RU Russia#185≈35,000 est.≈1 in 4.1K#162Элеонора154
SE Sweden#85912,0571 in 84612KEleonora52
UA Ukraine#208≈7,200 est.≈1 in 6.1KlistedЕлеонора35
MD Moldova—2,6111 in 1.3K2.6KEleonora10
MK North Macedonia#1891,301as Елеонора1 in 1.6K1.3KEleonora12
LV Latvia—1,0781 in 1.7K1.1KEleonora12

120,071 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling eleanor. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); e-services.md — living population register; State Statistical Office — living population names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

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

Eleonora is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name63 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Greek

    Also written Eleanor, Էլեոնորա, Elinor, Ελεονωρα, Eleonore

  • a separate name10 spellings in the group

    Also written Eleonóra, Ėleonora, Ėlėonora, Êleonora, Éléonora

  • Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States

    Also written Eleonóra

45 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)

Eleonora is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Italian form of Eleanor, now sometimes also used in the English-speaking world. 77

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1000120014001600180020002200Eleanor of Aquitaine, b. 1124Eleanor of Austria, b. 1498Mary of Modena, b. 1658Eleanor H. Porter, b. 1868Eleanor Roosevelt, b. 1884June Allyson, b. 1917Margaret Burbidge, b. 1919Rosalynn Carter, b. 1927Margaret Atwood, b. 1939Greta Thunberg, b. 2003
  • Eleanor of Aquitaineb. 1124FRnot in their usual nameQueen consort of France; Queen consort of England; suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine; patroness
  • Eleanor of Austriab. 1498ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Portugal and France (1498-1558)
  • Mary of Modenab. 1658ITnot in their usual nameQueen consort of England (1685-1688)
  • Eleanor H. Porterb. 1868USnot in their usual nameAmerican novelist (1868–1920)
  • Eleanor Rooseveltb. 1884USnot in their usual nameAmerican 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)
  • 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)
  • Greta Thunbergb. 2003SEnot in their usual nameSwedish climate protection activist (born 2003)

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)

Attested in 85 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Eleonora
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12K#343
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203K#5,615
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—2.6K#237
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.1K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—1.1K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—1.1K#404
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024897#44
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202595—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206#5,615

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Eleonora come from?
Italian, Romanian, etc. form of Eleanor; bright, shining one Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
What does the name Eleonora mean?
In Italian, a female given name, equivalent to English Eleanor
What are other forms of the name Eleonora?
In the etymology graph, Eleanor, Nelly and Leonor are forms of the same name in other languages; Ellen, Nora and Noor are recorded short or pet forms.
In which country does Eleonora have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 120 thousand people named Eleanor, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Eleonora most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eleonora is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 846 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Eleonora?
In Sweden, the national register counted 12,057 people named Eleonora, about 1 in 846 residents.
How common is Eleonora compared with other names?
In Russia, Eleonora is the 185th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
Is Eleonora a male or female name?
Eleonora 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.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Eleonora” — the 185th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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