Elinor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name, variant of Eleanor
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛʎɪnɒɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Elinor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 2.6K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 18K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈53,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name, variant of Eleanor.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elinor, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elinor 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Elinor | 11 |
| US United States | — | 8,193 | 1 in 41K | 8.2K | Elinor | 327 |
| SE Sweden | #475 | 3,925 | 1 in 2.6K | 3.9K | Elinor | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 3 | Elinor | 153 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Elinor | 40 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Elinor | 65 |
| DK Denmark | — | 584 | 1 in 10K | 584 | Elinor | 28 |
| NO Norway | — | 378 | 1 in 14K | 1.3K | Elinor | 27 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Elinor 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.
Variant spelling of Eleanor.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
English: variant spelling 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)
- Elinor Glynb. 1864GBBritish novelist and scriptwriter (1864-1943)
- Elinor Fairb. 1903USAmerican actress (1903–1957)
- Judy Agnewb. 1921USnot in their usual nameSecond Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1973
- Elinor Ostromb. 1933USAmerican political economist (1933-2012)
- Elinor Donahueb. 1937USactress
- Nell Newmanb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Ellie Harvieb. 1965CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
- April Marchb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter, cartoon animator
- Elinor Barkerb. 1994GBWelsh racing cyclist
- Elinor Purrierb. 1995USAmerican middle- and long-distance runner
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 65 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.2K | #2,823 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.9K | #707 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.4K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,428 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 584 | #536 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 378 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 142 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 41 | #2,823 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2020 | 3 | #765 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2004 | 3 | #372 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What are other forms of the name Elinor?
- In the etymology graph, Eleanor, Leonor and Leonora are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Elinor mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name, variant of Eleanor. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Elinor?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛʎɪnɒɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Elinor a male or female name?
- Elinor 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.
- In which country does Elinor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named Elinor in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elinor.
- Where is Elinor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elinor is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 2.6 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elinor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,193 people named Elinor in 2020, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Elinor compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Elinor is the 475th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Elinor?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elinorThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Elinor” — the 475th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.