Elmore
Elmore was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 3,967 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elmore by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elmore?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,686, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
131 babies in 1918, the peak
Elmore peaked in 1918, when 131 boys were given it, #530 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #12,686 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,963 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,352 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,203 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,437 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,273 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,001 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,296 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,623 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,173 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 8 | #4,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,026 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,735 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,222 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,085 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,473 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,585 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,067 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,572 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,940 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,426 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,232 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,516 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,695 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,112 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,455 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,672 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 20 | #1,825 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 26 | #1,576 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,595 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 24 | #1,635 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,253 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 27 | #1,520 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,345 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,102 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,087 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,064 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,121 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,042 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,107 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 57 | #914 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 51 | #977 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,068 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,023 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 51 | #890 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 56 | #845 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 58 | #878 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,065 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 42 | #993 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,074 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 49 | #892 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 45 | #942 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 44 | #945 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 53 | #836 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 50 | #897 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 48 | #910 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 66 | #754 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 60 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 68 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 71 | #756 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 63 | #821 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 58 | #877 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 67 | #813 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 82 | #701 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 88 | #686 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 87 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 108 | #612 | 0.10 |
| 1922 | 115 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 96 | #659 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 85 | #701 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 102 | #599 | 0.10 |
| 1918 | 131 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 96 | #607 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 86 | #628 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 119 | #509 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 80 | #558 | 0.12 |
| 1913 | 64 | #541 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 56 | #533 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 24 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1910 | 31 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 28 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1908 | 20 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1907 | 26 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1906 | 19 | #526 | 0.14 |
| 1905 | 25 | #434 | 0.19 |
| 1904 | 19 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1903 | 16 | #558 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 13 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 9 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 31 | #405 | 0.21 |
| 1899 | 13 | #559 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 20 | #456 | 0.16 |
| 1897 | 14 | #560 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 24 | #402 | 0.20 |
| 1895 | 19 | #459 | 0.16 |
| 1894 | 11 | #640 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 9 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 14 | #556 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 18 | #416 | 0.18 |
| 1890 | 12 | #576 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 14 | #505 | 0.13 |
| 1888 | 16 | #487 | 0.13 |
| 1887 | 10 | #599 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 11 | #581 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 18 | #426 | 0.17 |
| 1884 | 11 | #582 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 10 | #610 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 13 | #523 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 5 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 9 | #650 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elmore a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elmore has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 114 years of records.
Girls and boys named Elmore: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elmore, and how old are they?
An estimated 890 Americans named Elmore and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 58 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 939 people named Elmore (21 women and girls, 918 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Elmore born?
The states with the most babies named Elmore are Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and South Carolina and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 267 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| South Carolina | 253 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Louisiana | 227 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| North Carolina | 179 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 148 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 75 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 40 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 34 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 33 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Elmore is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elmore is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elmore with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elmore
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 Elmore and names like it
- Compare Elmore and HomerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElmore peaked in 1918.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elmore since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Elmore.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elmore alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.