Meaning not yet researched.
Elma: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #209 in 1901.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #209 in 1901; #4,384 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elma in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,384 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1901, at #209.
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Elma: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #209 in 1901 · most girls in one year: 659 (1918).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Elma, making it the 4,384th most common girls’ name of the year, up 207 places from #4,591 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 30 girls named Elma in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #209, reached in 1901. The most girls given the name in a single year was 659, in 1918. For comparison, it was #4,520 in 2015 and #717 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elma in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 28 babies with the name. In all, 22,186 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,161 babies named Elma.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 278 US girls were named Elma; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alma (165,942 babies since 1880) and Delma (9,901 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elmae are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elmae (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Elma in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,384 | — | — |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,591 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,434 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,350 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,416 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,948 | — | — |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,384 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,425 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,038 | — | — |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,520 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,067 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,708 | — | — |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,238 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,391 | — | — |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,645 | — | — |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,126 | — | — |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,206 | — | — |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,003 | — | — |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,020 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,845 | — | — |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,413 | — | — |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,470 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,460 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,645 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,978 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,079 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,523 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,494 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,091 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,230 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,399 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,531 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,946 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,531 | — | — |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,167 | — | — |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,990 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,898 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,173 | — | — |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,304 | — | — |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 1972 | 41 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1964 | 62 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1963 | 76 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1962 | 74 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1961 | 72 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1960 | 111 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1959 | 89 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1958 | 108 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1957 | 94 | #1,074 | 8 | #3,089 |
| 1956 | 103 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1955 | 104 | #978 | — | — |
| 1954 | 114 | #898 | — | — |
| 1953 | 129 | #812 | — | — |
| 1952 | 130 | #792 | — | — |
| 1951 | 125 | #795 | 6 | #3,460 |
| 1950 | 143 | #717 | 6 | #3,427 |
| 1949 | 150 | #685 | 8 | #2,859 |
| 1948 | 159 | #662 | 7 | #3,086 |
| 1947 | 167 | #643 | 5 | #3,898 |
| 1946 | 162 | #624 | — | — |
| 1945 | 179 | #547 | 5 | #3,459 |
| 1944 | 162 | #577 | 13 | #2,017 |
| 1943 | 208 | #518 | — | — |
| 1942 | 226 | #495 | 8 | #2,773 |
| 1941 | 193 | #501 | 13 | #2,023 |
| 1940 | 204 | #470 | 8 | #2,723 |
| 1939 | 204 | #469 | 10 | #2,326 |
| 1938 | 244 | #429 | 11 | #2,230 |
| 1937 | 225 | #437 | 16 | #1,779 |
| 1936 | 258 | #396 | 10 | #2,338 |
| 1935 | 267 | #393 | 9 | #2,589 |
| 1934 | 285 | #375 | 10 | #2,448 |
| 1933 | 297 | #369 | 9 | #2,597 |
| 1932 | 299 | #373 | 8 | #2,923 |
| 1931 | 352 | #339 | 8 | #2,922 |
| 1930 | 362 | #346 | 9 | #2,839 |
| 1929 | 360 | #341 | 12 | #2,359 |
| 1928 | 424 | #321 | 18 | #1,852 |
| 1927 | 465 | #308 | 19 | #1,825 |
| 1926 | 449 | #313 | 22 | #1,623 |
| 1925 | 487 | #301 | 17 | #1,953 |
| 1924 | 522 | #290 | 14 | #2,264 |
| 1923 | 494 | #289 | 18 | #1,892 |
| 1922 | 579 | #268 | 13 | #2,378 |
| 1921 | 610 | #271 | 18 | #1,929 |
| 1920 | 600 | #266 | 20 | #1,775 |
| 1919 | 594 | #262 | 15 | #2,091 |
| 1918 | 659 | #249 | 15 | #2,095 |
| 1917 | 580 | #256 | 9 | #2,795 |
| 1916 | 622 | #246 | 23 | #1,471 |
| 1915 | 575 | #245 | 12 | #2,211 |
| 1914 | 484 | #242 | 10 | #2,146 |
| 1913 | 388 | #245 | 13 | #1,520 |
| 1912 | 375 | #234 | 11 | #1,557 |
| 1911 | 252 | #248 | 6 | #1,594 |
| 1910 | 273 | #235 | — | — |
| 1909 | 248 | #227 | — | — |
| 1908 | 208 | #234 | — | — |
| 1907 | 228 | #219 | — | — |
| 1906 | 193 | #227 | — | — |
| 1905 | 171 | #245 | 5 | #1,290 |
| 1904 | 160 | #248 | — | — |
| 1903 | 162 | #235 | — | — |
| 1902 | 199 | #210 | — | — |
| 1901 | 189 | #209 | — | — |
| 1900 | 182 | #235 | — | — |
| 1899 | 136 | #238 | — | — |
| 1898 | 172 | #222 | — | — |
| 1897 | 156 | #218 | — | — |
| 1896 | 160 | #219 | 6 | #1,021 |
| 1895 | 137 | #234 | — | — |
| 1894 | 127 | #237 | — | — |
| 1893 | 129 | #231 | — | — |
| 1892 | 112 | #249 | — | — |
| 1891 | 118 | #223 | — | — |
| 1890 | 108 | #234 | — | — |
| 1889 | 98 | #235 | — | — |
| 1888 | 97 | #235 | — | — |
| 1887 | 73 | #246 | — | — |
| 1886 | 82 | #223 | — | — |
| 1885 | 76 | #227 | — | — |
| 1884 | 59 | #254 | — | — |
| 1883 | 42 | #274 | — | — |
| 1882 | 47 | #251 | — | — |
| 1881 | 41 | #247 | — | — |
| 1880 | 28 | #297 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).