Elinore

Where Elinore comes from

Elinore hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1887
    First appearance
    #1,147 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1900
    Elinore Denniston born
    American author
  3. 1911
    Peak, #686
    40 babies named Elinore — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1943
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,994.
  5. 1996
    Elinore Johansson born
    Swedish handball player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Elinore Denniston · American author, 1900–1978
  • Elinore Johansson · Swedish handball player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.