Elinor
21
Babies in 2024
-30%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 136
-30%
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 Elinor
Elinor peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (136 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 21 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Elinor reached its peak in 1996, when 136 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #273 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 21 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,573 girls have been officially registered with the name Elinor in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 347 girls were registered with the name, starting from 30 in 2014 and ending at 21 in 2024.