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Elanora

Gender
Girl
Say it
el-uh-NOR-uh
Origin
French
US rank, 2025
#5,916 for girls

Elanora is a girls' name of French origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).

What does Elanora mean?

French: spelling of Ellanora, itself a spelling of Eleanora, from Eleanor via Occitan Alienor

Eleanor reached England with Eleanor of Aquitaine; one theory reads Occitan Alienor as 'the other Aenor', after her mother.

Meaning borrowed from Ellanora.

Is Elanora a girl's or a boy's name?

Elanora is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Elanora in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,916th among girls
Babies in 2025
20 about 1 in 80,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Elanora, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. It first appears in the records in 1915.

2025 had the most girls named Elanora of any year since it first appeared, in 1915.

Half of all the girls named Elanora in the US since 1880 were born between 1928 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 60 girls in the US were given Elanora or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,325, up from #5,916 for this spelling alone.

1915Busiest: 20 in 20252025
Elanora in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202520#5,916
20245#15,288
20239#10,307
202216#6,979
20219#10,287
202016#6,919
201911#9,106
201815#7,405
20179#10,685
20167#12,871
20150–
20149#10,949
20139#10,995
20125#16,863
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19287#3,741
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19236#4,375
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19216#4,462
19207#3,955
19196#4,249
19185#4,807
191711#2,692
19160–
19155#4,272

Nicknames for Elanora

Names like Elanora

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Elanora

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Elanora: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elanora, updated 20 October 2026.