Elenor

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.

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elenor, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Charlotte
• Adelaide
• Caroline
• Nora
• Margaret
• Catherine
• Cecilia
• Amelia
• Grace
• Alice
• Arabella
• Lillian

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

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

• Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, France

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Elénor, Élènor, Élenor, Élénor

• Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Norway, Denmark

  Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

  Also written Elénor

• Croatian given name13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Croatia

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Eleanor, Еленор

42 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.

• Elenor Cheneyb. 1919USIndiana artist best known for her black and white acrylic paintings (1919–1994)
• Elenor Connb. 1944balloonist
• Elenor Jainart historian

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.

How do you pronounce Elenor?

In Spanish /elenoɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Elenor a male or female name?

Elenor is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male; Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.

In which country does Elenor have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Elenor in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elenor.

Where is Elenor most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elenor is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Elenor?

In Sweden, the national register counted 2,065 people named Elenor, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.