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Elnore
How to Pronounce Elnore
Pronounced EL-nor /ˈɛlnɔːr/Medium
Meaning: Elnore is a squeezed spelling of Eleanor, itself from the Old Provencal Alienor. The meaning is uncertain and much debated; a common gloss ties the second part to Latin lumen and reads it as 'light', though this is folk etymology rather than proven.Low
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U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Elnore is one of many casual respellings of Eleanor, a name the Provencal noblewoman Alienor of Aquitaine carried to England. Families writing by ear collapsed the three-syllable Eleanor into the tighter Elnore or Elnora.
Elnore was never common, drawing only a couple dozen girls a year even at its high around 1916 and disappearing by the nineteen-forties. It reads now as a plain-spoken country respelling of a grand old name; a girl called it then would be of a great-grandmother's generation.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Elnore mean?
It is a respelling of Eleanor, a Provencal name whose meaning is debated but often read as 'light'.
How do you pronounce Elnore?
It's said EL-nor /ˈɛlnɔːr/, two syllables, stress on the first.
Is Elnore a boy or girl name?
Elnore is used as a girl's name.
Is Elnore a popular name?
No, it was always rare, a spelling variant of Eleanor that saw only faint use in the early twentieth century.