| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|
| Eleanora | Shining light. Variant of Helen.
| Female | Latinate |
| Elena | the bright one | Female | Spanish |
| Eleni | light or torch | Female | Greek |
| Elenore | | Unisex | Hebrew |
| Elinor | Torch | Female | English |
| Ella | beautiful fairy woman, all | Female | |
| Elle | after the lead character from the movie Legally Blonde | Female | |
| Ellen | light, mercy | Female | English |
| Elli | Torch | Unisex | Finnish |
| Ellie | bright shining one | Female | English |
| Elly | Torch | Unisex | English |
| Helen | bright one, torchlight | Female | Greek |
| Helena | bright, shining one | Female | Latinate |
| Lena | Alluring, Temptress, Light | Female | Greek |
| Lenora | Italian diminutive of Eleonora or Eleanor, meaning unknown | Female | English |
| Lenore | Torch | Female | English |
| Leonora | Light | Female | Italian |
| Lina | tender | Unisex | |
| Nelda | one who lives by the alder tree | Female | English |
| Nell | Abbreviation of Eleanor shining light.
| Female | English |
| Nellie | the bright one | Female | English |
| Nelly | Abbreviation of Eleanor shining light.
| Male | English |
| Nonnie | Ninth | Unisex | Latin |
| Nora | Abbreviation of Eleanora light and Honora honor.
| Female | Irish |