Elanor is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Elanor is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Elanor. In the SmartGenius ranking, Elanor is #2,501 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Elanor.
If your name is Elanor your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Elanor never ranked higher than position 1,742 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Elanor. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1937 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Elanor because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elanor was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Elanor still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 99 times in the entire U.S. So, a Elanor from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Elanor are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Elanor is registered in 14 states, among which are California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana or Michigan. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Elanor live in Utah, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 72,999 would turn around if you called the name Elanor across Utah.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Elanor is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Elanor and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elanor, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Nut
Orange
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elanor
Elanor
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
A
N
O
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
L
A
N
O
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Elanor sounds like this:
