Eleonora

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Eleonora is a Roman form of the Old Provençal name Aliénor of uncertain etymology. Theories include:

1) From a Germanic name with a first element ali = 'other, foreign' and an uncertain last element [1] [2] [3]

2) From a Germanic name with a first element *al-a = 'to grow, to feed' (see ALA) [4]

3) From an Arabic name meaning 'God is my light' (see also Eliora) [1] [5] [6] [7] [8]

4) Greek ἔλεος (eleos) = 'mercy, compassion' [6]

5) Eleonora has been associated with the name Helene, but a connection is not very certain [1] [3] [5] [8]

Related Names

     
Elenora ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Icelandic
Elenóra ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Icelandic
Elenuura ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Eleonoora ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Eleonor ♀ Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Eleonora ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Eleonore ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Eléonore ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Onora ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian

See also Eleanor, Ella, Leonore, Lora, Nonna, Nora

Name Days

Denmark Denmark

28 June

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

14 April

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

28 June

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

11 July

Sweden Sweden

11 July

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Eleonora
Accusative: Eleonoru
Dative: Eleonoru
Genitive: Eleonoru

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1621 [8]

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Sweden Sweden[9] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 802 11351 0 0
Denmark Denmark[10] Statimg f3.pngStatimg m0.png 223 n.a. 0 n.a
Norway Norway[11] Statimg f2.pngStatimg m0.png 48 70 0 0
Finland Finland[12] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m1.png n.a. 1957 n.a 1
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend[9][10][11][12]:Name statistics for Eleonora(f)


Sources: [9] [10] [11] [12]

References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  4. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  6. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  7. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  8. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  9. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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