Elvera
Elvera was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 5,200 Americans have been recorded with it between 1887 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elvera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elvera?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,012, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
219 babies in 1921, the peak
Elvera peaked in 1921, when 219 girls were given it, #465 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,012 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,574 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,654 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,968 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,846 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,522 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 10 | #5,651 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,159 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,283 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,719 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,028 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,446 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,281 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,088 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,075 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,839 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,760 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,487 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,585 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,958 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,233 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,886 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,316 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,947 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,782 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,689 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,931 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,025 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,583 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 36 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,458 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,553 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 49 | #1,156 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 57 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 49 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 67 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 55 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 58 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 54 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 70 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 74 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 81 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 107 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1931 | 105 | #647 | 0.10 |
| 1930 | 109 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1929 | 124 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 133 | #611 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 144 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 181 | #520 | 0.15 |
| 1925 | 174 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1924 | 166 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 193 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1922 | 202 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 219 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1920 | 212 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1919 | 217 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1918 | 204 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1917 | 198 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1916 | 200 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1915 | 186 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1914 | 115 | #522 | 0.15 |
| 1913 | 105 | #497 | 0.17 |
| 1912 | 101 | #476 | 0.18 |
| 1911 | 52 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 54 | #560 | 0.14 |
| 1909 | 46 | #569 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 36 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 42 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1906 | 34 | #614 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 21 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 31 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 27 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 33 | #575 | 0.12 |
| 1901 | 26 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 30 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1899 | 13 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 20 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 16 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,155 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 15 | #826 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 10 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,521 | 0.02 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elvera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elvera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elvera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elvera, and how old are they?
An estimated 742 Americans named Elvera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 67 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,246 people named Elvera (1,245 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above 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).
Where are babies named Elvera born?
The states with the most babies named Elvera are New York, Illinois and California, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 379 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 343 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 336 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Minnesota | 316 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 280 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 177 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 157 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 129 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 121 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 119 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Elvera is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elvera is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 3.0 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 Elvera 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 32,552 babies since 1880, Elvera is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 none of their 119 babies recorded by SSA was a Elvera (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Elvera
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 Elvera and names like it
- Compare Elvera and ElviraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElvera peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elvera since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Elvera.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elvera alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.