As a kid, I thought Eleanor was an "old-lady" name of my great-grandmother's generation. Of course, those names are coming back in style, so Eleanor doesn't sound so "old" anymore. I quite like Eleanor (as well as Elinor, which I think of as the "Jane Austen spelling), but I'd be more likely to use it as a middle name than a first.
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