Electa
Electa was last recorded in 2016, when 7 babies were given it; 1,181 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Electa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Electa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,304, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1918, the peak
Electa peaked in 1918, when 40 girls were given it, #1,191 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | #13,304 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,385 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,518 | 3.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,192 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,166 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,788 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,451 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,650 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,460 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,550 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 9 | #6,944 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,318 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,057 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,148 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,646 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,238 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,413 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,000 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,140 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,478 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,449 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,631 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,306 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,038 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,533 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,756 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,130 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,924 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,537 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,795 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,004 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,700 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,052 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,194 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,939 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,109 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,656 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,321 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,825 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,333 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,026 | 7.9 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,789 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,302 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,394 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,238 | 7.7 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,402 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,227 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,042 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,784 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,416 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,363 | 12.6 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,787 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,827 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,075 | 15.2 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,745 | 19.9 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,209 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,523 | 24.3 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,560 | 23.4 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,662 | 21.2 |
| 1918 | 40 | #1,191 | 34.6 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,665 | 20.3 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,195 | 34.5 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,295 | 30.5 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,398 | 27.6 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,619 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,261 | 32.3 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,196 | 35.9 |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,038 | 45.4 |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,025 | 46.1 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,284 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,233 | 34.5 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,010 | 47.4 |
| 1905 | 16 | #938 | 54.9 |
| 1904 | 24 | #714 | 87.2 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,655 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,486 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 18 | #778 | 75.2 |
| 1900 | 16 | #948 | 53.4 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,045 | 42.9 |
| 1898 | 14 | #932 | 54.1 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,191 | 34.2 |
| 1896 | 18 | #768 | 75.7 |
| 1895 | 13 | #904 | 55.6 |
| 1894 | 12 | #916 | 53.8 |
| 1893 | 15 | #770 | 70.5 |
| 1892 | 11 | #921 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 15 | #702 | 80.9 |
| 1890 | 16 | #672 | 84.0 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,335 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 10 | #851 | 56.0 |
| 1887 | 10 | #744 | 68.5 |
| 1886 | 12 | #667 | 83.0 |
| 1885 | 9 | #756 | 67.6 |
| 1884 | 7 | #873 | 54.3 |
| 1883 | 7 | #768 | 62.3 |
| 1882 | 5 | #947 | 46.4 |
| 1880 | 6 | #774 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Electa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Electa 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 Electa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Electa, and how old are they?
An estimated 277 Americans named Electa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 47 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 409 people named Electa (409 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 329 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Electa
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 Electa and names like it
- Compare Electa and OrphaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElecta peaked in 1918.
- Kansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Electa since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Electa.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Electa alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.