Elta
Elta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 550th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191543 births
- Best rank
- #550in 1881
- Since 1881
- 1,415people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,415 girls have been named Elta in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 43 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 43 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 23%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 77 | |
| 1890s | 162 | |
| 1900s | 166 | |
| 1910s | 319 | |
| 1920s | 313 | |
| 1930s | 196 | |
| 1940s | 131 | |
| 1950s | 31 | |
| 1960s | 10 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Elta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Elta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Altapeak 1918
- Floypeak 1918
- Ethelpeak 1918
- Alphapeak 1916
- Maepeak 1918
- Artiepeak 1916
- Onapeak 1916
- Ivapeak 1918
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.