Elora
Elora was given to 861 girls in 2025, #354 among girls’ names; 8,811 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,540 Americans named Elora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elora is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elora?
#354 among girls’ names, 2025
Elora rose from #958 in 2015 to #354 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.16 to 0.54 per 1,000.
861 babies in 2024, the peak
Elora peaked in 2024, when 861 girls were given it, #364 among girls’ names. The 861 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 861 | #354 | 0.54 |
| 2024 | 861 | #364 | 0.53 |
| 2023 | 713 | #433 | 0.44 |
| 2022 | 613 | #512 | 0.37 |
| 2021 | 558 | #547 | 0.34 |
| 2020 | 455 | #636 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 326 | #833 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 393 | #724 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 384 | #736 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 376 | #759 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 283 | #958 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 237 | #1,081 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 193 | #1,239 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 160 | #1,425 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 181 | #1,304 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,704 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,727 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 136 | #1,654 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 111 | #1,880 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,746 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 109 | #1,792 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,737 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,789 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 86 | #2,018 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,605 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 79 | #2,076 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 60 | #2,426 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,106 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,026 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 70 | #2,001 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,426 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,213 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,494 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,284 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,111 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 91 | #1,634 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,602 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,241 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,610 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,804 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,798 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,247 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,894 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,476 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,106 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,759 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,479 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,797 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,758 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,916 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,248 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,668 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,791 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,890 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,874 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,522 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,190 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,220 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,533 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,444 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,666 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,759 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,735 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,759 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,674 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,861 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,872 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,457 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,348 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,452 | 0.01 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,782 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elora, and how old are they?
8,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 8,811 Americans ever recorded as Elora. The median Elora alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 4,399 people named Elora (4,393 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,648 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 48 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 534 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,220 |
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 Elora born?
The states with the most babies named Elora are Texas, California and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 92 | #374 | 0.8× |
| California | 80 | #417 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 62 | #301 | 0.8× |
| New York | 38 | #454 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 34 | #321 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 33 | #221 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 30 | #276 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 30 | #369 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #387 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 27 | #418 | 0.7× |
Where Elora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elora is most over-represented in Washington: since 1910 it was given 1.5 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 Elora 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 15,038 babies since 1880, Elora is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 861 of their 1,614 babies (53%), again the most given.
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 Elora
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 Elora and names like it
- Compare Elora and ElaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElora peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elora since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Elora.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elora alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.