Entry № 2873 · English origin

Elinor Elinor — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EL-ih-nor /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"English Eleanor (Eleanor of Aquitaine)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "english eleanor (eleanor of aquitaine)".

Elinor is from the English Elinor.

English Eleanor (Eleanor of Aquitaine) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Elinor
Transliteration
Elinor
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛl.ɪ.nɔːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Elinor stands.

Elinor 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.

Elinors before her.

Real people

In fiction
Eleanor of Aquitaine / Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor of Aquitaine 1122-1204 Queen of France + England + mother of Richard the Lionheart + King John + Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 drafted UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
Medieval + American

Names connected to Elinor.

The number behind Elinor.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Elinor reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.