Entry № 5859 · Spanish origin

Leonor Leonor — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ leh-oh-NOR /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Light (the Spanish Eleanor; current heir to the throne)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "light (the spanish eleanor; current heir to the throne)".

Leonor is the Spanish-Portuguese form of Eleanor — from Greek helios (sun, light). Leonor de Borbón (born 2005) is the Princess of Asturias, the current heir apparent to the Spanish throne — daughter of King Felipe VI. Eight Iberian queens have borne the name.

Leonor of Castile (1241-1290) was the Spanish princess who married Edward I of England — when she died, he marked her funeral journey with twelve Eleanor Crosses across England.

Light (the Spanish Eleanor; current heir to the throne) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Leonor
Transliteration
Leonor
Pronunciation
/ ˌleɪ.oʊˈnɔːr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Leonor stands.

Leonor 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.

Leonors before her.

Real people
Princess Leonor de Borbón
Heir to the Spanish throne.
born 2005
Leonor of Castile
Wife of Edward I.
1241 – 1290
In fiction
Leonor
Common in Iberian historical fiction.

Names connected to Leonor.

The number behind Leonor.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Leonor reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.