Elnora

Elnora is an English given name that arose as a contracted or phonetically altered form of Elinora, itself a variant of Eleanor. Eleanor is generally traced back through Old French Aliénor to a Provençal form whose ultimate root is debated, with proposed origins including the Germanic element alja meaning other or foreign, or a connection to the Greek name Helen. Elnora gained quiet but steady use in the English-speaking world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in part popularized by Gene Stratton-Porter's 1909 novel A Girl of the Limberlost, whose protagonist bears the name. Related forms include Elinor, Eleanora, and Leonora.