Elmina
Elmina was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,510 among girls’ names; 834 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elmina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elmina?
#8,510 among girls’ names, 2025
Elmina rose from #12,169 in 2015 to #8,510 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 7.5 per million.
26 babies in 1916, the peak
Elmina peaked in 1916, when 26 girls were given it, #1,453 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,510 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,516 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,516 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,507 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,411 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,798 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,298 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,869 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,653 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,308 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,169 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,131 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,917 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,402 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,642 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,138 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,283 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,040 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,961 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,055 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,686 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,884 | 5.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,078 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,741 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,514 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,916 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,105 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,923 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,939 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,937 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,293 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,486 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,977 | 4.1 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,378 | 3.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,479 | 3.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,748 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,468 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,873 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,094 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,996 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,433 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,972 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,931 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,823 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,399 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,793 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,309 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,163 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,594 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,228 | 13.3 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,347 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,007 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,280 | 13.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,991 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,055 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,234 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,193 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,416 | 12.5 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,940 | 17.0 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,384 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,871 | 17.7 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,983 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,021 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,453 | 24.9 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,824 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,838 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,419 | 27.2 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,321 | 30.5 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,479 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,449 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,821 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,580 | 23.9 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,460 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,256 | 34.3 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,237 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,490 | 26.5 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,785 | 20.0 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,121 | 38.6 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,107 | 38.4 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,653 | 21.0 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,166 | 35.9 |
| 1892 | 11 | #923 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,381 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 12 | #801 | 63.0 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,071 | 41.1 |
| 1884 | 10 | #698 | 77.5 |
| 1883 | 7 | #772 | 62.3 |
| 1882 | 8 | #698 | 74.2 |
| 1880 | 8 | #643 | 87.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elmina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elmina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elmina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elmina, and how old are they?
An estimated 276 Americans named Elmina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 489 people named Elmina (487 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 265 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Elmina
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 Elmina and names like it
- Compare Elmina and AlmiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Elmina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elmina alive today were born 1997-2012.
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