Elecia — girls' name
526 babies named Elecia in U.S. Social Security records since 1954, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
24% of everyone ever named Elecia was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Elecia in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Elecia
The Social Security Administration has registered 526 babies named Elecia between 1954 and 2017, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elecia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Elecia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Elecia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Elecia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Elecia 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 526 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.
Elecia at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Elecia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1954
- Peak year (1980)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 64 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
526 total births across 64 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 20 births in a single year.
Elecia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 124 births that decade — 24% of Elecia's all-time total
Elecia decade highlights
- Peak decade 124 births
- Runner-up 107 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Elecia's strongest decade
124 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 24% of all-time use.
Elecia by state
Where Elecia concentrates geographically — total births since 1954
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 1.0% |
5 of 526 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1954–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.