Eleanora vs Eleanore
American parents have registered 18,724 Eleanores since 1880, against 8,322 Eleanoras. But in 2025 it was Eleanora that was commoner, 313 babies to 156.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Eleanora Eleanore
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Eleanore for 114 years and Eleanora for 32 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.
- 1884–1897 Eleanora ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1901–2010 Eleanore ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 2011–2025 Eleanora ahead
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Eleanora | Eleanore | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 8,322 | 18,724 |
| Most in one year | 313 | 768 |
| Babies in 2025 | 313 | 156 |
| Estimated living today | 4,300 | 4,100 |
| Median age today | 8 | 34 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1921 |
| Best rank | 862nd girls | 235th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 862nd | 1,396th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 8,322 / 0 | 18,724 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Eleanores alive today are over 34; half the Eleanoras are over 8. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Eleanora Maryland (3.8×), Minnesota (2.3×), Pennsylvania (2.0×)
- Eleanore Wisconsin (4.5×), North Dakota (3.6×), Illinois (2.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Eleanora | Eleanore |
|---|---|---|
| France | 10 | 3,250 Eléanore |
| England and Wales | 297 | 149 |
| Belgium | 15 | 378 Eléanore |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Eleanora and Eleanore.