Meaning not yet researched.
Elmira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #392 in 1887.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #392 in 1887; #9,027 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elmira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,027 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1887, at #392.
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Elmira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #392 in 1887 · most girls in one year: 122 (1921).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Elmira, making it the 9,027th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,325 places from #7,702 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 14 girls named Elmira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #392, reached in 1887. The most girls given the name in a single year was 122, in 1921. For comparison, it was #8,133 in 2015 and #1,634 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elmira in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 13 babies. In all, 4,360 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 903 babies named Elmira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 92 US girls were named Elmira; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elvira (27,278 babies since 1880) and Mira (15,101 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elmyra and Delmira are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ellie, Elly and Mira.
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 Latvian and Tatar. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elmyra (537), Delmira (59).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,027 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,702 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,810 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,172 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,399 | — | — |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,847 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,775 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,947 | — | — |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,011 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,133 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,376 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,343 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,928 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,511 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,649 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,831 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,047 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,222 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,645 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,173 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,152 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,528 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,008 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,546 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,045 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,377 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,290 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,136 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,066 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,708 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,158 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,362 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,169 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,836 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,142 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,154 | — | — |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,379 | — | — |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1957 | 30 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1942 | 40 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1941 | 45 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1940 | 49 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1938 | 49 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1937 | 54 | #942 | — | — |
| 1936 | 43 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1935 | 54 | #949 | — | — |
| 1934 | 57 | #907 | — | — |
| 1933 | 47 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1932 | 52 | #980 | — | — |
| 1931 | 59 | #900 | — | — |
| 1930 | 67 | #883 | — | — |
| 1929 | 79 | #790 | — | — |
| 1928 | 92 | #741 | — | — |
| 1927 | 72 | #876 | — | — |
| 1926 | 86 | #778 | — | — |
| 1925 | 87 | #791 | — | — |
| 1924 | 81 | #833 | — | — |
| 1923 | 93 | #753 | — | — |
| 1922 | 94 | #754 | — | — |
| 1921 | 122 | #668 | — | — |
| 1920 | 97 | #732 | — | — |
| 1919 | 95 | #718 | — | — |
| 1918 | 108 | #692 | — | — |
| 1917 | 105 | #663 | — | — |
| 1916 | 104 | #670 | — | — |
| 1915 | 102 | #656 | — | — |
| 1914 | 80 | #647 | — | — |
| 1913 | 74 | #600 | — | — |
| 1912 | 71 | #572 | — | — |
| 1911 | 33 | #758 | — | — |
| 1910 | 47 | #611 | — | — |
| 1909 | 35 | #673 | — | — |
| 1908 | 54 | #494 | — | — |
| 1907 | 47 | #524 | — | — |
| 1906 | 34 | #613 | — | — |
| 1905 | 40 | #548 | — | — |
| 1904 | 31 | #616 | — | — |
| 1903 | 39 | #516 | — | — |
| 1902 | 42 | #487 | — | — |
| 1901 | 34 | #524 | — | — |
| 1900 | 33 | #614 | — | — |
| 1899 | 29 | #569 | — | — |
| 1898 | 37 | #512 | — | — |
| 1897 | 29 | #557 | — | — |
| 1896 | 38 | #470 | — | — |
| 1895 | 40 | #460 | — | — |
| 1894 | 20 | #670 | — | — |
| 1893 | 33 | #467 | — | — |
| 1892 | 31 | #489 | — | — |
| 1891 | 20 | #596 | — | — |
| 1890 | 31 | #471 | — | — |
| 1889 | 38 | #394 | — | — |
| 1888 | 19 | #580 | — | — |
| 1887 | 31 | #392 | — | — |
| 1886 | 18 | #530 | — | — |
| 1885 | 15 | #560 | — | — |
| 1884 | 21 | #439 | — | — |
| 1883 | 22 | #400 | — | — |
| 1882 | 17 | #449 | — | — |
| 1881 | 17 | #407 | — | — |
| 1880 | 13 | #477 | — | — |
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).