Elnora

Where Elnora comes from

Elnora 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. 1852
    Elnora Monroe Babcock born
    American suffragist, writer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #238 among girls — 42 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #221
    60 babies named Elnora — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,830.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Elnora Monroe Babcock · American suffragist, writer, 1852–1934

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.