Eleonore
The girl's name Eleonore has been in the national records since 1882, with 1,088 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 420 Eleonores are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Eleonore
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,088
- Estimated living today
- 420
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 1923
- Best rank
- 1,388th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1882
How old the living Eleonores are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,088 babies given the name since 1882, about 420 are alive — 39 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Eleonores
- Eleonore of Austria (1653–1697)Queen of Poland and Duchess of Lorraine
- Princess Éléonore of Belgium (born 2008)youngest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
- Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (1732–1776)French Salon-holder
- Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach (1662–1696)Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Electress of Saxony
- Queen Eleonore of Bulgaria (1860–1917)Princess Consort (1908-1908), later Queen Consort of Bulgaria
- Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1871–1937)Grand Duchess consort of Hesse and by Rhine
- Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau (1602–1664)Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by marriage
- Eleonore Schwarz (born 1936)Austrian singer
People named Eleonore with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Eleonore is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Eleonore is most concentrated in Michigan (6.4×), Illinois (5.2×), New York (4.2×), California (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1923
The most popular girls’ names the year Eleonore peaked:
Eleonore elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Eleonore +5 spellings | 29,575 | 92nd |
| Belgium girls | Eléonore +2 spellings | 2,641 | 89th |
| Switzerland girls | Eléonore +2 spellings | 604 | 277th |
| England and Wales girls | Eleonore | 165 | 2,341st |
| France boys | Eleonore | 110 | 1,609th |
| Poland girls | Eléonore | 2 birth registrations | 734th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Eleonore: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Eleonore | 57 | 0.005% | 580th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Eléonore | 39 | 0.003% | 867th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Éléonore | 25 | 0.002% | 867th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Eléonore | 317 | 0.073% | 83rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Éléonore | 105 | 0.024% | 77th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Eleonore | 57 | 0.013% | 338th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Eleonore | 2 | 0.003% | 176th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Éléonore | 1 | 0.002% | 196th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Eléonore | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Eleonore is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.12% of children were given it – 196 of them.
Eleonore: rank by region
In 2025, Eleonore was given 5 times or more in 7 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Eléonore | 125 | 47 |
| Flanders | Eleonore | 484 | 10 |
| Flanders | Éléonore | 836 | 5 |
| Wallonia | Eléonore | 62 | 42 |
| Wallonia | Éléonore | 71 | 35 |
| Brussels | Eléonore | 159 | 7 |
| Brussels | Éléonore | 194 | 6 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Eleonore appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (Eléonore, 30th), Province of Namur (Éléonore, 42nd), Province of Walloon Brabant (Eléonore, 50th), Province of Liège (Éléonore, 61st), Province of Hainaut (Eléonore, 64th), Province of Liège (Eléonore, 70th), Province of West Flanders (Eléonore, 77th), Province of East Flanders (Eléonore, 78th), Province of Hainaut (Éléonore, 90th), Province of Limburg (Eléonore, 117th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Eléonore, 147th), Brussels-Capital Region (Eléonore, 159th), Brussels-Capital Region (Éléonore, 194th) and Province of Antwerp (Eléonore, 204th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Eleonore by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 21 | 332nd |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 552nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Eleonore among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Eleonore | 903 | 2,216 |
| Finland girls | Eleonore +1 spelling | 14 | 80 |
| the Netherlands boys | Eleonore | — | 21 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Eleonore against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.