Eldora — girls' name

What the Data Says About Eldora

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,065 babies named Eldora between 1880 and 2020, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Eldora currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 156 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Eldora performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,289 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Eldora shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 186 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Eldora in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Eldora in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,065 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.