Girls' name · since 2022
Elaira
Since 2022, U.S. Social Security records show 17 babies named Elaira, peaking in 2024. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #47,667 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,694 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 17
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elaira currently ranks #14694 among girls' names in America, with 17 babies recorded since 2022.
Elaira has 17 recorded births among girls since 2022, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14694 as of the latest data, more common than 15% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2022 to 2025.
- #47,667 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,694 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 17 born since 2022
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elaira ranks #47,667 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,694 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 17 born since 2022, peaking in the 2020s.
- #47,667 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,694 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 17
- born since 2022
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elaira's 17 recorded births place it above 33.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Elaira compares
17 6th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Elaira's all-time total is 95% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Elaira | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 17 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Elaira's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Elaira splits its recorded history at 2024: 71% of all births land in the more recent half, 29% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2022 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Elaira popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Elaira by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (17 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Elaira's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Elaira births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 17 births (100% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2022–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Elaira draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.