Girls' name · since 2018
Elyria
Since 2018, U.S. Social Security records show 51 babies named Elyria, peaking in 2018. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #34,773 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,974 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 51
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elyria currently ranks #12974 among girls' names in America, with 51 babies recorded since 2018.
Elyria has 51 recorded births among girls since 2018, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12974 as of the latest data, more common than 25% 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 2018 to 2025.
- #34,773 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,974 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 51 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elyria ranks #34,773 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,974 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 51 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #34,773 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,974 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 51
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elyria's 51 recorded births place it above 51.71% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Elyria compares
51 16th 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
Elyria's all-time total is 86% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Elyria | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 51 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Elyria's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Elyria's SSA record in two at 2021 and the more recent half accounts for 59% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 41%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2020, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2018 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Elyria popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2025
- Peak year (2018)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Elyria by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (35 births, 69% of the file).
2020s was Elyria's strongest decade.
35 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 69% of all-time use.
Elyria births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
16 births
- 2020s
2020s
35 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 35 births (69% 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, 2018–2025 (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 Elyria 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.