Elvira
Elvira is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 81 births. Its best rank was 254th, in 1914.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 810.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920592 births
- Best rank
- #254in 1914
- Since 1880
- 27,111people given the name
The story in the numbers
27,111 girls have been named Elvira in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 592 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 99 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elvira | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 446 | |
| 1890s | 884 | |
| 1900s | 1,393 | |
| 1910s | 4,229 | |
| 1920s | 5,444 | |
| 1930s | 3,211 | |
| 1940s | 2,371 | |
| 1950s | 2,213 | |
| 1960s | 1,724 | |
| 1970s | 1,394 | |
| 1980s | 1,171 | |
| 1990s | 1,021 | |
| 2000s | 724 | |
| 2010s | 532 | |
| 2020s | 354 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Elvira was the 268th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Elvira
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eldapeak 1916
- Eunicepeak 1921
- Margaretpeak 1921
- Berylpeak 1920
- Vernapeak 1918
- Leonorepeak 1928
- Rosellapeak 1924
- Ionapeak 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.