Elleanor is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Elleanor 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 Elleanor. In the SmartGenius ranking, Elleanor is #3,691 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 Elleanor.
The first name Elleanor is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 28 Americans in total bear this name. And these 28 women are located in only four states: California, Louisiana, Ohio and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Elleanor and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Elleanor in relation to it’s female population is Louisiana. And yet even there, only one in 540,693 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Elleanor.
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 eight letters, the name Elleanor is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Elleanor 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 Elleanor, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Apple
Nut
Orange
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elleanor
Elleanor
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
L
E
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
L
E
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. Elleanor sounds like this:
