Girls' name · since 2002
Elorah
Elorah has 229 recorded births since 2002 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #18,446 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,672 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 229
- born since 2002
- 2020s
- peak decade
229 babies have been named Elorah since 2002, making it today's #5672 girls' name.
Elorah has 229 recorded births among girls since 2002, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #5672 as of the latest data, more common than 67% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2002 to 2025.
- #18,446 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #5,672 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 229 born since 2002
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elorah ranks #18,446 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,672 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 229 born since 2002, peaking in the 2020s.
- #18,446 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,672 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 229
- born since 2002
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elorah's 229 recorded births place it above 74.46% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Elorah compares
229 40th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Elorah's all-time total is 39% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Elorah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 229 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 27 | 21 | 19,840 |
Elorah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Elorah splits its recorded history at 2016: 61% of all births land in the more recent half, 39% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2018 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2023 peak of 27 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Elorah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2002–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 27
- Annual births at peak, across 24 years of records
Elorah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (102 births, 45% of the file).
2020s was Elorah's strongest decade.
102 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 45% of all-time use.
Elorah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 40
2000s
40 births
- 2010s
2010s
87 births
- 2020s
2020s
102 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 102 births (45% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2002–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Elorah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.