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I like it a lot, but this is one of those names that surprises me with its popularity. I find Eleanor very clunky, as "ugly" as Elmer and Selma and Helmer and Sheldon and all those other names most people wouldn't take a second look at. I love it for that, but I'm always surprised regular people like it too. Maybe it seems lumpier to me because my family pronounces it like "Ellen-er" (I have a great-aunt Eleanor), not the delicate "ella-nor".