Baby name
FADING
🇺🇸 Elnora
/el · NOR · uh/
Meaning
“Possibly 'the other Aenor'”
A shortened form of Eleanora, itself a variant of Eleanor. The origin of Eleanor is uncertain; it comes through Old French from the Occitan name Alienòr, possibly meaning 'the other Aenor'.
Nicknames
ellie · elle · nora · nell
Vibe
gentlepoetic
How it ages.
A rare vintage name with a literary side: it is the name of the heroine of an early 20th-century novel, and it comes with sweet short forms like Ellie and Nora.
The cultural moment.
Rare today; last ranked #942 in the United States, in 1957.