Elmar
Elmar was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 314 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elmar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elmar mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Elmar is “a diminutive of the male given name Adelmar, roughly equivalent to English Elmer”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elmar?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,189, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1920, the peak
Elmar peaked in 1920, when 15 babies were given it (10 boys, #2,827 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,189 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,611 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,132 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,826 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,842 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,452 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,777 | 2.8 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,475 | 3.1 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,841 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,670 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 8 | #2,724 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,220 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,742 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,499 | 8.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,068 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,097 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,168 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,713 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,838 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,646 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,717 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,762 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,460 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,219 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,383 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,149 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,270 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,679 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,827 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,515 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,857 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,317 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,601 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,211 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,502 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,951 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elmar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 314 Americans recorded as Elmar, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Elmar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elmar, and how old are they?
An estimated 57 Americans named Elmar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 630 people named Elmar (44 women and girls, 586 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 68 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9.3 times 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 spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 131,722 babies since 1880, Elmar is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 165 babies recorded by SSA was a Elmar (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elmar
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 Elmar and names like it
- Compare Elmar and ElmerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElmar peaked in 1920.
- Arkansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elmar since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Elmar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Elmar.
- Names starting with EMost given first.