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The first name 
Elinor

Elinor is a first name for girls.

Elinor is a well-known but special name!

Elinor is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,319 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,318 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 15,314 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Elinor. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Elinor

Elinor -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Elinor annualy. This means that there have been girls named Elinor who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Elinor have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Elinor even more than any other time: in 1916, it holds its present record of #247 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Elinor was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Elinor 2022 among young parents?

Elinor has never been ranked higher than #247. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,244 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 168 girls named Elinor were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Elinor were born, there have been 27 newborns who received this name.

Elinor has 6 letters 
and begins with an E

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 Elinor 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.

Other names with 
E, l, i, n, o and r

If you take all the letters in the name Elinor – E, l, i, n, o and r – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Lenoir or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Elinor

If your name is Elinor 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...

This is how you spell the name Elinor

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elinor, you can simply say:

Elephant

Lion

Igloo

Nut

Orange

Rocket

This is how the name Elinor is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Elinor in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Elinor

Elinor

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Elinor

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Elinor is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
L
I
N
O
R

Have you ever waved the name Elinor

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
I
N
O
R

Beeping like crazy...

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. Elinor sounds like this: