Girls' name · since 2020
Elyra
Elyra has 31 recorded births since 2020 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #40,501 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,043 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 31
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elyra currently ranks #10043 among girls' names in America, with 31 babies recorded since 2020.
Elyra has 31 recorded births among girls since 2020, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10043 as of the latest data, more common than 42% 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 2020 to 2025.
- #40,501 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,043 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 31 born since 2020
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elyra ranks #40,501 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,043 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 31 born since 2020, peaking in the 2020s.
- #40,501 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,043 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 31
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elyra's 31 recorded births place it above 43.66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Elyra compares
31 11th 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
Elyra's all-time total is 92% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Elyra | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 31 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Elyra's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Elyra's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 48% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 52%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2023, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Elyra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Elyra by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (31 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Elyra's strongest decade.
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Elyra births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
31 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 31 births (100% 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, 2020–2025 (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 Elyra 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.