Elta
Elta was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,415 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 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 Elta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elta is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,961, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1915, the peak
Elta peaked in 1915, when 43 girls were given it, #1,017 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,961 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,639 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,343 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,712 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,429 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,771 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 10 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,669 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,290 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,090 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,913 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,046 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,210 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,336 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,817 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,263 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,687 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,785 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,485 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,772 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,968 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,540 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,032 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,512 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,477 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 42 | #1,232 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,472 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 40 | #1,236 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 42 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 43 | #1,017 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,048 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 29 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,232 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 22 | #837 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 24 | #764 | 0.08 |
| 1906 | 17 | #902 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 21 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 20 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 13 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 20 | #839 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 18 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 24 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 16 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 16 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 18 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 13 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 15 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 19 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 9 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 14 | #733 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 9 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 14 | #696 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 10 | #745 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 10 | #743 | 0.07 |
| 1885 | 7 | #864 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 9 | #663 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 8 | #699 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 10 | #550 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elta, and how old are they?
An estimated 163 Americans named Elta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 76 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 402 people named Elta (391 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 244 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,063 babies since 1880, Elta is the most given (69% of them).
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 Elta
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 Elta and names like it
- Compare Elta and ElitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElta peaked in 1915.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elta since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Elta.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Elta alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with EMost given first.