Girls' name · since 1915
Elanora
193 babies named Elanora in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,174 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,945 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 193
- born since 1915
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Elanora is the #5945 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 193 recorded since 1915.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elanora has been recorded 193 times among girls since 1915, currently ranked #5945 nationally and more common than 66% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1915 to 2025.
- #20,174 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #5,945 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 193 born since 1915
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elanora ranks #20,174 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,945 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 193 born since 1915, peaking in the 2020s.
- #20,174 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,945 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 193
- born since 1915
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elanora's 193 recorded births place it above 72.05% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Elanora compares
193 36th 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
Elanora's all-time total is 49% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Elanora | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 193 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 20 | 21 | 19,840 |
Elanora's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Elanora splits its recorded history at 2014: 65% of all births land in the more recent half, 35% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1915 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 20 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Elanora popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1915–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 111 years of records
Elanora by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (75 births, 39% of the file).
2020s was Elanora's strongest decade.
75 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 39% of all-time use.
Elanora births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 27
1910s
27 births
- 1920s 26
1920s
26 births
- 2010s
2010s
65 births
- 2020s
2020s
75 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 75 births (39% of all-time use).
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Elanora: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~110 yrs)
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, 1915–2025 (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 Elanora 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.