Elenora is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Elenora is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Elenora. In the SmartGenius ranking, Elenora is #4,263 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 Elenora.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Elenora 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 Elenora is registered in 18 states, among which are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky or Louisiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Elenora live in Louisiana, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 16,681 would turn around if you called the name Elenora across Louisiana.
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 seven letters, the name Elenora has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Elenora 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 Elenora, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Orange
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elenora
Elenora
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
E
N
O
R
A
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
E
N
O
R
A
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. Elenora sounds like this:
