Elara
Elara was given to 275 girls in 2025, #942 among girls’ names; 1,790 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Elara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elara?
#942 among girls’ names, 2025
Elara rose from #4,427 in 2015 to #942 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.02 to 0.17 per 1,000.
275 babies in 2025, the peak
Elara peaked in 2025, when 275 girls were given it, #942 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 209 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 275 | #942 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 209 | #1,153 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,382 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,326 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 149 | #1,443 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 136 | #1,554 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 155 | #1,437 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 175 | #1,301 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 126 | #1,700 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,025 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,427 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,846 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,702 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,676 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,934 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,626 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,779 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,116 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,405 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,152 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,500 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,425 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elara, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,790 Americans ever recorded as Elara. The median Elara alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 682 people named Elara (680 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 92 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,690 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Elara born?
The states with the most babies named Elara are California, Texas and New York, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 35 | #842 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 25 | #1,101 | 0.7× |
| New York | 20 | #803 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 13 | #717 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,270 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 10 | #710 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #948 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 9 | #602 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,015 | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 9 | #540 | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,575 babies since 1880, Elara is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 275 of their 1,547 babies (18%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elara and names like it
- Compare Elara and EloraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElara peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elara since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Elara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.