Entry № 5860 · Latin origin

Leonora Leonora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lee-oh-NOR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Light (Leonora Carrington, surrealist painter)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "light (leonora carrington, surrealist painter)".

Leonora is the Italian elaborated form of Eleanor — from the Old Provençal Aliénor. A modern revival in the vintage-Italian aesthetic.

Light (Leonora Carrington, surrealist painter) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Leonora
Transliteration
Leonora
Pronunciation
/ ˌliː.əˈnɔːr.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Leonora stands.

Leonora 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.

Leonoras before her.

Real people
Leonora Carrington
British-Mexican surrealist painter.
1917 – 2011
Princess Leonor of Spain
Heir to Spanish throne.
born 2005
In fiction
Leonora
Beethoven's Fidelio.
1805

Names connected to Leonora.

The number behind Leonora.

8

The Visionary

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