Name: Eleanor
Gender: Female
Usage: Eleanor is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Eleanor are in general originating from France, Greece, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Eleanor across the world, see Leonora, Éléanor.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Eleanor is: Pity, Light.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Eleanor is ranked on the 1,272nd position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 378600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.006% of the population. The name Eleanor has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Eleanor for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Eleanor (usually pronounced /ˈɛlənɔr/ in North America but /ˈɛlənər/ elsewhere, variants Elinor, Ellinor, Elenor, Eleanore, Eleanour, Eleonor(a) among others; short form Leonor and variants) is a feminine given name. It was the name of a number of women of the high nobility in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages, originally from a Provençal name Aliénor.
In modern times, the name was popularly given in the United States in the 1910s to 1920s, peaking at rank 25 in 1920. It declined below rank 600 by the 1970s, but has again risen above rank 150 in the early 2010s.
Common hypocorisms include Ella, Ellie, Elly (etc.), Leonor, Leonora, Leonore, Leanora, Lenora, (etc.) Nell, Nella, Nellie, Nelly, Nelda, Nelle, (etc.), Nora(h), Noreen, Norene, Nonie (etc.)
English: from an Old French respelling of the Old Provençal name Alienor, which has been taken as a derivative of Helen, but is probably of Germanic derivation (with a first element ali other, foreign). The name was introduced to England by Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204), who came from south-west France to be the wife of King Henry II. It was also borne by Eleanor of Provence, the wife of Henry III, and Eleanor of Castile, the wife of Edward I.
Variants: Ellenor, Elinor.
Cognates: Irish Gaelic: Eileanóra. French: Eléonore. Italian: Eleonora. German: Eleonore.
Pet forms: English: Nell, Ellie.
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