Elberta
Elberta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 800th, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191661 births
- Best rank
- #800in 1907
- Since 1883
- 1,750people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,750 girls have been named Elberta in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 61 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 61 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elberta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1890s | 50 | |
| 1900s | 184 | |
| 1910s | 431 | |
| 1920s | 461 | |
| 1930s | 273 | |
| 1940s | 192 | |
| 1950s | 98 | |
| 1960s | 29 | |
| 1970s | 21 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Elberta was the 873rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Elberta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jewellpeak 1920
- Alleanpeak 1924
- Leomapeak 1920
- Cledapeak 1917
- Gladyspeak 1920
- Rubyepeak 1919
- Velmapeak 1921
- Beatricepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.