Nameberrys most popular baby names of 2020so far.
Nameberry eleanor. Eleanor is back Nora is back and soon Eleanora will be too. Name_fEleanorname_f is a name that I have gone back and forth on. We projected Cora would rank among the top girls names in the US for years to come said Nameberrys CEO Pamela Redmond.
But this German nickname works nicely for Eleanor too. Spelling Eleonora adds yet another syllable to make the pronunciation el-LAY-oh-nor-a and you can try to instruct people to say Eleanora that way too but most will pronounce it like Eleanor. Its a bit of hot button issue in my house recently because Ive been lobbying for nameEleanorname since my husband and I first got engaged that was when I happened to unleash my name nerd tendencieswhoops and he always told me that he didnt care for it.
The name was introduced to England by Eleanor of Aquitaine who came to marry King Henry II. The name Elinor is a girls name of French origin. Cora stood at Number 8 on the popular baby name websites list at this time last year and had moved all the way up to Number 6.
Nameberry predicts that this years notable surge in pro-female power will popularize names for strong women and Eleanor beheld by Queen. She was named Aenor after her mother and was called by the Occitan phrase alia Aenor the other AENOR in order to distinguish her from her mother. Katie Couric spells her Elinors name this way.
I feel it is dowdy and overrated. Luna and Milo are leading the roster for girls and boys. Slimmed down spelling is well-established and makes an old name more modern for better and worse.
It is the name of a number of women of the high nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Nameberry In second place is traditional Maeve followed by Aurora in fourth place is Isla and making up the top five is Ava. It was first borne by the influential Eleanor of Aquitaine 12th century who was the queen of Louis VII the king of France and later Henry II the king of England.