Entry № 2858 · Italian origin

Eleonora Eleonora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-leh-oh-NOH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Light (Eleonora di Toledo, Italian Renaissance duchess)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "light (eleonora di toledo, italian renaissance duchess)".

Eleonora is the Italian form of Eleanor — possibly from the Provençal alia Aenor ("the other Aenor").

Light (Eleonora di Toledo, Italian Renaissance duchess) — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Eleonora
Transliteration
Eleonora
Pronunciation
/ ˌɛl.iˈɔː.nə.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eleonora stands.

Eleonora 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.

Eleonoras before her.

Real people
Eleonora di Toledo
Duchess of Florence.
1522 – 1562
Eleonora d'Arborea
Judge-queen of Sardinia.
1347 – 1404
Eleonora Duse
Italian actress.
1858 – 1924
In fiction
Eleonora
Bronzino's portrait.
1545

Names connected to Eleonora.

The number behind Eleonora.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eleonora reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.