Name meaning & stats
Elinor
Elinor means “light (debated)”. 7,037 US babies since 1940, peak 1940.
What it means
“light (debated)”
Form of Eleanor
In US birth records
Peak year: 1940
7,037 US babies were named Elinor between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Elinor (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 23 Eleanors spell it Elinor
- Eleanor 88%
- Elinor 4%
- Eleanore 2%
- Elanor 1%
- Elenor 1%
- Ellanor <1%
- Elleanor <1%
- Elinore <1%
- Ellinor <1%
- Eleonor <1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1940)