Entry № 2841 · Greek origin

Eleanora Eleanora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Bright, shining light"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "bright, shining light".

Eleanora is a variant spelling of Eleanor, meaning bright and shining.

A fresh spelling of a well-loved name, it keeps the familiar sound with a look all its own.

Bright, shining light — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Eleanora
Transliteration
Eleanora
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Eleanora stands.

Eleanora 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.

Eleanoras before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Eleanora.

The number behind Eleanora.

8

The Visionary

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