Elvera — girls' name

What the Data Says About Elvera

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,200 babies named Elvera between 1887 and 2022, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elvera currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 219 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elvera performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,748 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Elvera shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 379 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Elvera in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elvera in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,200 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.