Eleanora

Where Eleanora comes from

The dictionaries list Eleanora as a given name — a female given name, variant of Eleanor — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1811
    Eleanora Louisa Hervey born
    British author
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Eleanora Knopf born
    American geologist
  4. 1885
    Peak, #484
    19 babies named Eleanora — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,564.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Eleanor.
Namesakes
  • Eleanora Knopf · American geologist, 1883–1974
  • Eleanora Louisa Hervey · British author, 1811–1903
  • Eleanora Moore · English actress, 1844–1869

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.