Elberta
Elberta was last recorded in 1979, when 6 babies were given it; 1,750 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elberta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elberta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,315, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1916, the peak
Elberta peaked in 1916, when 61 girls were given it, #873 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 6 | #9,315 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,108 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,167 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,317 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,984 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,831 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 11 | #3,980 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,516 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,356 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,641 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 7 | #4,969 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,159 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,554 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,158 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,847 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,332 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,809 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,246 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,015 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,158 | 11.8 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,507 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,839 | 16.1 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,673 | 18.8 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,758 | 17.2 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,817 | 16.3 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,901 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,704 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,437 | 24.6 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,260 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,226 | 32.9 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,515 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,336 | 28.6 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,323 | 28.7 |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,318 | 29.8 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,356 | 28.1 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,517 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,469 | 24.9 |
| 1929 | 48 | #1,054 | 43.0 |
| 1928 | 45 | #1,139 | 39.0 |
| 1927 | 46 | #1,131 | 38.6 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,227 | 33.7 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,303 | 30.4 |
| 1924 | 42 | #1,231 | 33.6 |
| 1923 | 52 | #1,054 | 43.1 |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,146 | 37.5 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,100 | 38.9 |
| 1920 | 58 | #959 | 48.4 |
| 1919 | 52 | #1,004 | 46.0 |
| 1918 | 55 | #969 | 47.5 |
| 1917 | 56 | #926 | 51.8 |
| 1916 | 61 | #873 | 58.4 |
| 1915 | 41 | #1,042 | 41.7 |
| 1914 | 43 | #889 | 56.5 |
| 1913 | 43 | #805 | 68.9 |
| 1912 | 33 | #875 | 59.1 |
| 1911 | 24 | #882 | 57.4 |
| 1910 | 23 | #898 | 58.0 |
| 1909 | 22 | #874 | 63.4 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,055 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 22 | #800 | 69.1 |
| 1906 | 18 | #880 | 61.0 |
| 1905 | 20 | #830 | 68.6 |
| 1904 | 20 | #811 | 72.6 |
| 1903 | 17 | #841 | 64.9 |
| 1902 | 15 | #913 | 56.8 |
| 1901 | 14 | #889 | 58.5 |
| 1900 | 21 | #811 | 70.1 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,123 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,120 | 38.6 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,103 | 38.4 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,649 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,473 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,396 | 26.9 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,515 | 23.5 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,178 | 33.6 |
| 1883 | 5 | #958 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elberta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elberta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elberta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elberta, and how old are they?
An estimated 294 Americans named Elberta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 72 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 419 people named Elberta (412 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elberta
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 Elberta and names like it
- Compare Elberta and AlleanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElberta peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elberta since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Elberta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elberta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.