Eldora
Eldora was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 4,065 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eldora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eldora?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,910, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
156 babies in 1923, the peak
Eldora peaked in 1923, when 156 girls were given it, #576 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #13,910 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,163 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,833 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,133 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,458 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 7 | #5,631 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,604 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,745 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,676 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,073 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,226 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,401 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,690 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,746 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,747 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,492 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,089 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,970 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,946 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,332 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,637 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,681 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,910 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,784 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,489 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 45 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 48 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 54 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 56 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 59 | #918 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 64 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 48 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 72 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 59 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 65 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 70 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 109 | #641 | 0.10 |
| 1931 | 92 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 68 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 80 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 117 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1927 | 147 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 124 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 126 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1924 | 154 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1923 | 156 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1922 | 115 | #679 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 146 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 124 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1919 | 129 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 125 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1917 | 94 | #715 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 135 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1915 | 96 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 87 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 53 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 53 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 36 | #725 | 0.09 |
| 1910 | 43 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 30 | #734 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 30 | #715 | 0.09 |
| 1907 | 26 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1906 | 31 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 24 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 30 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 24 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 24 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 20 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 22 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 14 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 17 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 15 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 16 | #758 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 14 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 20 | #594 | 0.11 |
| 1890 | 17 | #647 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 8 | #968 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 9 | #913 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 12 | #670 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 7 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 11 | #668 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 11 | #651 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 7 | #767 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 6 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 11 | #525 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eldora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eldora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eldora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eldora, and how old are they?
An estimated 673 Americans named Eldora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 68 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 985 people named Eldora (977 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 991 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).
Where are babies named Eldora born?
The states with the most babies named Eldora are Georgia, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 186 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Minnesota | 182 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Wisconsin | 128 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Iowa | 90 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 84 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 69 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 62 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 59 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Dakota | 51 | not ranked | 2.3× |
Where Eldora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eldora is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Eldora with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eldora
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 Eldora and names like it
- Compare Eldora and RosellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEldora peaked in 1923.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eldora since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Eldora.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Eldora alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with EMost given first.