Eleanore

Where Eleanore comes from

Eleanore hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #466 among girls — 13 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1904
    Eleanore Griffin born
    American screenwriter
  3. 1916
    Peak, #225
    724 babies named Eleanore — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1917
    Eleanore Whitney born
    American actress
  5. 1930
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #345.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Eleanore Griffin · American screenwriter, 1904–1995
  • Eleanore Whitney · American actress, 1917–1983
  • Eleanore Sullivan · Italian courtesan, 1750–1833
  • Eleanore Pettersen · American architect, 1916–2003
  • Eleanore Bouw-Spies · South African politician, born 1971

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.