Eleanor
672
Babies in 2024
-36%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 2.75k
-12%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Eleanor
Eleanor peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (2,747 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 672 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Eleanor reached its peak in 1997, when 2,747 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #20 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 672 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 40,576 girls have been officially registered with the name Eleanor in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 10,321 girls were registered with the name, starting from 1,049 in 2014 and ending at 672 in 2024.