Elnora
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 29 babies a year in the US.
Elnora by the numbers
Elnora was given to 29 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 639 babies in 1924, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Elnora
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Elnora. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Elioragod is my light; a form of Elior with feminine suffix90 in England and Wales (2025)
- Elenorabright light; a form of Eleanor7 in England and Wales (2025)
- Enorahonorable or noble4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Elinorabright light; a form of Eleanor5 in the US (2017)
- Eldoragilded or covered with gold
- Elora201 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Elnora
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