Elynor
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Elynor by the numbers
Elynor was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 25 babies in 1919, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Elynor
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 Elynor. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Elinorbright light; a form of Eleanor27 in England and Wales (2025)
- Elanorshining light; a modern respelling of Eleanor13 in England and Wales (2025)
- Elenorbright light; a form of Eleanor16 in the US (2017)
- Eleanorshining light5,519 in the US (2017)
- Ellinorbright torch; a form of Eleanor31 in the US (2017)
- Elenorabright light; a form of Eleanor7 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Elynor
Names that are said the same way as Elynor, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Eleanorebright light; a form of Eleanor99 in the US (2017)
- Elleanorbright light; a form of Eleanor30 in the US (2017)
- Ellanorebright light; a variant of Eleanor21 in the US (2017)
- Elenorebright light or torch; form of eleanor20 in the US (2017)
- Ellenorbright light; a form of Eleanor3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Elinorebright light; a form of Eleanor16 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Elynor
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