Baby name

FADING GIRL · OLD FRENCH/OCCITAN ALIENOR
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Aliénor

/ah · lee · eh · NOR/


“Other or foreign”

Old French name, possibly Occitan origin meaning other or foreign, Eleanor variant

alienor · elodie (modern equivalent)

chicrefined

How it ages.

Medieval and early modern French nobility, extremely archaic

The cultural moment.

Long out of use, it has been revived in France since the 2000s alongside other medieval names.