Entry № 435 · Old French origin

Aliénor Aliénor — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-lee-eh-NOR /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old French
Meaning
"Eleanor of Aquitaine"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Old French)

A name that means "eleanor of aquitaine".

Aliénor is the Old French/Provençal original of Eleanor — possibly from Occitan alia (other) and meaning "other Aenor" (after her mother). Aliénor d'Aquitaine (1122-1204) was the Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of France then Queen of England — mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John, the most powerful woman of the medieval period.

Aliénor is widely used in modern France.

Eleanor of Aquitaine. Queen of France, then England.

The name in its native script.

Aliénor
Transliteration
Aliénor
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.li.eɪˈnɔːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aliénor stands.

Aliénor does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aliénors before her.

Real people
Aliénor d'Aquitaine
Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England.
1122 – 1204
In fiction
Aliénor
Common in French medieval fiction.

Names connected to Aliénor.

The number behind Aliénor.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aliénor reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.