Elanor: Meaning, Popularity, Origin of Baby Name Elanor | Girls
Origin of the name Eleanor:
Derived from Alienor, a Provençal form of the Greek Helenē, which is derived from the element ēlē (light, torch, bright).
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Elanor was used in the Lord of the Rings books, where it is the name of a small, yellow, star-shaped flower growing in Lórien. Lady Galadriel of the elves wears a garland crown of elanor-flowers. Later, Sam the hobbit named his first daughter Elanor because of her golden hair. In elvish, it means "sun-star"
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