Elnora
Elnora was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,616 among girls’ names; 21,390 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,570 Americans named Elnora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 62 and 84.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elnora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elnora?
#6,616 among girls’ names, 2025
Elnora fell from #6,296 in 2015 to #6,616 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 10.6 per million.
639 babies in 1924, the peak
Elnora peaked in 1924, when 639 girls were given it, #259 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,616 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,500 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,217 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,209 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,805 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,667 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,241 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,811 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,723 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,240 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,296 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,182 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,782 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,948 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,773 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,645 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,914 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,884 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,073 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,822 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,422 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,863 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,812 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,609 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,079 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,174 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,742 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,401 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,423 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,025 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,848 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,239 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,403 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,029 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,462 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,603 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,210 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,718 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,787 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,138 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,538 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,990 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,062 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,167 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,538 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,470 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,319 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,480 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,716 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,472 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,781 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,851 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,184 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,388 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,026 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,268 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,757 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 57 | #1,465 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,355 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,488 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 64 | #1,395 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,129 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 91 | #1,156 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 99 | #1,080 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 104 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 101 | #1,042 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 119 | #942 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 111 | #956 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 117 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 143 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 155 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 157 | #710 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 150 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 182 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 200 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1948 | 214 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1947 | 205 | #596 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 196 | #570 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 214 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1944 | 205 | #502 | 0.15 |
| 1943 | 244 | #471 | 0.17 |
| 1942 | 267 | #450 | 0.20 |
| 1941 | 249 | #433 | 0.21 |
| 1940 | 275 | #415 | 0.24 |
| 1939 | 293 | #386 | 0.27 |
| 1938 | 312 | #372 | 0.28 |
| 1937 | 320 | #361 | 0.30 |
| 1936 | 306 | #361 | 0.29 |
| 1935 | 371 | #327 | 0.35 |
| 1934 | 320 | #352 | 0.31 |
| 1933 | 327 | #346 | 0.32 |
| 1932 | 398 | #321 | 0.37 |
| 1931 | 339 | #347 | 0.32 |
| 1930 | 376 | #334 | 0.33 |
| 1929 | 415 | #320 | 0.37 |
| 1928 | 452 | #310 | 0.39 |
| 1927 | 480 | #306 | 0.40 |
| 1926 | 487 | #302 | 0.41 |
| 1925 | 545 | #286 | 0.45 |
| 1924 | 639 | #259 | 0.51 |
| 1923 | 580 | #267 | 0.48 |
| 1922 | 584 | #267 | 0.49 |
| 1921 | 616 | #268 | 0.50 |
| 1920 | 607 | #265 | 0.51 |
| 1919 | 576 | #265 | 0.51 |
| 1918 | 579 | #262 | 0.50 |
| 1917 | 570 | #261 | 0.53 |
| 1916 | 550 | #259 | 0.53 |
| 1915 | 467 | #273 | 0.47 |
| 1914 | 426 | #252 | 0.56 |
| 1913 | 353 | #250 | 0.57 |
| 1912 | 315 | #251 | 0.56 |
| 1911 | 202 | #270 | 0.48 |
| 1910 | 241 | #248 | 0.61 |
| 1909 | 211 | #243 | 0.61 |
| 1908 | 170 | #271 | 0.51 |
| 1907 | 163 | #270 | 0.51 |
| 1906 | 168 | #252 | 0.57 |
| 1905 | 189 | #227 | 0.65 |
| 1904 | 155 | #253 | 0.56 |
| 1903 | 132 | #268 | 0.50 |
| 1902 | 162 | #239 | 0.61 |
| 1901 | 116 | #277 | 0.48 |
| 1900 | 182 | #236 | 0.61 |
| 1899 | 109 | #275 | 0.47 |
| 1898 | 105 | #304 | 0.41 |
| 1897 | 86 | #312 | 0.37 |
| 1896 | 106 | #284 | 0.45 |
| 1895 | 94 | #294 | 0.40 |
| 1894 | 83 | #302 | 0.37 |
| 1893 | 79 | #308 | 0.37 |
| 1892 | 98 | #266 | 0.46 |
| 1891 | 78 | #282 | 0.42 |
| 1890 | 76 | #286 | 0.40 |
| 1889 | 77 | #271 | 0.43 |
| 1888 | 82 | #254 | 0.46 |
| 1887 | 71 | #249 | 0.49 |
| 1886 | 45 | #311 | 0.31 |
| 1885 | 55 | #266 | 0.41 |
| 1884 | 64 | #238 | 0.50 |
| 1883 | 36 | #292 | 0.32 |
| 1882 | 60 | #221 | 0.56 |
| 1881 | 47 | #228 | 0.51 |
| 1880 | 42 | #238 | 0.46 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elnora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elnora has been given almost only to girls: 27 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Elnora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elnora, and how old are they?
4,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 21% of the 21,390 Americans ever recorded as Elnora. The median Elnora alive today is 75 years old; half are between 62 and 84.
The 2020 Census counted 4,788 people named Elnora (4,778 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,009 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,490 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,920 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 483 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 229 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 144 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 254 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Elnora born?
The states with the most babies named Elnora are Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 1,633 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Louisiana | 1,390 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Texas | 1,217 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 1,091 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Alabama | 984 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 962 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 939 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Arkansas | 820 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Indiana | 569 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 525 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Elnora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elnora is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 4.3 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 girls’ 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 Elnora with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,219 babies since 1880, Elnora is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 536 babies (3.2%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Elnora
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 Elnora and names like it
- Compare Elnora and EleanoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElnora peaked in 1924.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elnora since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Elnora.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elnora alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.