Elinor

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Elinor: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Elinor: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 10 years, its highest recorded position is #243, and it stood at #316 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
74times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#243highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Elinor's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#273
1997	#288
1998	#290
1999	#370
2000	#369
2001	#425
2002	#450
2003	#381
2004	#533
2005	#545
2006	#704
2007	#987
2008	#618
2009	#1105
2010	#965
2011	#973
2012	#955
2013	#1098
2014	#1155
2015	#965
2016	#861
2017	#1063
2018	#1136
2019	#996
2020	#1044
2021	#1128
2022	#1245
2023	#1108
2024	#1491

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 43 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #303 among girls in Norway, #1491 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #243 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #243 among girls in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #316 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Elinor appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 43 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 322 births with the name.

Elinor across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Elinor's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#243 (1945)	#243 (1945)	#316 (2025)	43 of 81	322 (1945–2025)	14 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#273 (1996)	#273 (1996)	#1491 (2024)	29 of 29	1,573 (1996–2024)	136 (1996)

Elinor by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Elinor in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	40	5 of 10	8
1950s	75	9 of 10	8
1960s	13	3 of 10	4
1970s	8	2 of 10	4
1980s	4	1 of 10	4
1990s	19	4 of 10	5
2000s	31	5 of 10	6
2010s	67	8 of 10	8
2020sbusiest	65	6 of 10	11

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Elinor appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #243 in Norway in 1945.

Elinor's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1491	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1108	30	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1245	26	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1044	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#996	35	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1136	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1063	33	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#861	43	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#965	37	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1155	30	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1098	32	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#955	38	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#973	36	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#965	35	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1105	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#618	60	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#704	44	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#545	61	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#533	60	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#381	96	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#450	70	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#425	72	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#369	88	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#370	87	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#290	127	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#288	126	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#273	136	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#316	11	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#303	12	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#308	12	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#410	6	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#262	14	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#335	10	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#350	10	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#387	9	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#527	4	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#359	12	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#386	10	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#430	8	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#415	9	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#521	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#510	6	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#503	6	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#511	6	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#445	7	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#504	6	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#552	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#540	5	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#570	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#623	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#641	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#592	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#571	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#492	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#500	4	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#465	4	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#453	4	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#296	9	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#396	5	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#291	10	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#303	9	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#281	10	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#287	10	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#244	12	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#340	6	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#315	7	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#324	7	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#371	5	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#293	9	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#243	12	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 52 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #243, first reached in 1945.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 136 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1995, and 59 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Elina · #106, 53y
Eline · #32, 65y
Elio · #326, 25y
Elion · #1675, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ines · #243, 51y
Marija · #243, 53y
Asma · #250, 49y
Kinga · #236, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Søren · #243, 51y
Tellef · #243, 28y
Anne-Sofie · #244, 37y
Asmund · #244, 15y

Elinor was ranked #243 in Norway · Girls in 1945. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Elinor and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Elinor without appearing here.

Elinor moved ahead of

Alison Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1105 and #1022 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #965 and #1815.
Kelly Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1245 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1108 and #1774.
Katrina Compare
In 2015 they stood at #965 and #891 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #861 and #1525.
Tyler Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1105 and #958 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #965 and #1520.

Moved ahead of Elinor

Aurora Compare
In 2008 they stood at #618 and #639 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1105 and #514.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #996 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1044 and #460.
Ada Compare
In 2008 they stood at #618 and #699 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1105 and #547.
Mila Compare
In 2008 they stood at #618 and #710 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1105 and #547.

Moved the opposite way to Elinor

Silje Compare
Between 1971 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elinor went from #571 to #316 while Silje went from #161 to #286.
Melanie Compare
Between 1986 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Elinor went from #641 to #316 while Melanie went from #323 to #482.
Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elinor went from #273 to #1491 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elinor went from #273 to #1491 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.

Moved the same way as Elinor

Grete Compare
Between 1945 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Elinor went from #243 to #410 and Grete from #28 to #484.
Reidun Compare
Between 1945 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Elinor went from #243 to #410 and Reidun from #17 to #425.
Trine Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Girls, Elinor went from #243 to #386 and Trine from #195 to #569.
Grethe Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Elinor went from #243 to #521 and Grethe from #21 to #576.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #243 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elinor

Elinor at a glance

What stands out in Elinor's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elinor across 2 official records

Elinor by decade in Norway · Girls

Elinor appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Elinor

Elinor and the names beside it

Elinor moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elinor

Moved the opposite way to Elinor

Moved the same way as Elinor

Elinor at a glance

What stands out in Elinor's record

Elinor across 2 official records

Elinor by decade in Norway · Girls

Elinor appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Elinor

Elinor and the names beside it

Elinor moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elinor

Moved the opposite way to Elinor

Moved the same way as Elinor