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I would use Eleanor - and I would use it - rather than Elinor, simply because it's everyone's first guess and would therefore save a lifetime of explanations. But I like them both very much, and don't think a nn is needed at all.

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Leanor - I'm assuming it's three syllables - looks unfinished and unEnglish.

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I had an aunt on one side of my family and a great-aunt on the other, both known as Nellie, and as a child I just assumed that they were Eleanor or Helen. They weren't. Each of them had Nellie as her full and only fn. Which I still find sad.