Elinor

Where Elinor comes from

The dictionaries list Elinor 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.

Along the way
  1. 1864
    Elinor Glyn born
    British novelist and scriptwriter
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1916
    Peak, #252
    580 babies named Elinor — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1933
    Elinor Ostrom born
    American political economist
  5. 1939
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #413.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Eleanor.
Namesakes
  • Elinor Ostrom · American political economist, 1933–2012
  • Elinor Glyn · British novelist and scriptwriter, 1864–1943
  • Elinor Barker · Welsh racing cyclist, born 1994
  • Elinor Donahue · actress, born 1937
  • Elinor Wylie · American poet, 1885–1928

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.