Meaning not yet researched.
Elora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 861 in 2025. Its best rank was #354 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Elora in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#354 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Elora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 861 girls in 2025. Peak: #354 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 861 (2025).
In 2025, 861 US girls were named Elora, making it the 354th most common girls’ name of the year, up 10 places from #364 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 861 girls named Elora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #354, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 861. For comparison, it was #958 in 2015 and #3,761 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elora in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 8,811 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,061 babies named Elora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,540 US girls were named Elora; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 861. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,867 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elora ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #135 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elara (1,790 babies since 1880), Eliora (1,672 babies since 1880) and Ellora (975 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eleora, Elorah and Elaura 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 Bangla. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eleora (420), Elorah (229), Elaura (92), Elliora (77), Eliara (52), Eliorah (42), Ellara (31), Elyra (31), Elaira (17), Ilara (7), Ellorah (7), Ilora (6), and more.
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 Elora in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 8 | #135 | — |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #160 | — |
| New Mexico | 9 | #167 | — |
| West Virginia | 8 | #211 | — |
| Washington | 33 | #221 | #438 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #245 | — |
| Colorado | 26 | #245 | #490 |
| Connecticut | 12 | #272 | — |
| Virginia | 30 | #276 | — |
| Florida | 62 | #301 | #877 |
| Massachusetts | 19 | #307 | — |
| Maryland | 17 | #314 | — |
| Missouri | 19 | #315 | #634 |
| North Carolina | 34 | #321 | #922 |
| New Jersey | 25 | #330 | #1,229 |
| Oregon | 11 | #334 | #608 |
| Kansas | 10 | #337 | #656 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #366 | #867 |
| Georgia | 30 | #369 | #1,384 |
| Texas | 92 | #374 | #1,202 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #387 | #836 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #391 | — |
| Arizona | 17 | #397 | #1,149 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #405 | — |
| California | 80 | #417 | #1,124 |
| Ohio | 27 | #418 | #708 |
| Idaho | 5 | #423 | #255 |
| Indiana | 16 | #427 | — |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #428 | #642 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #434 | #916 |
| Michigan | 19 | #444 | #944 |
| Illinois | 24 | #445 | #1,719 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #446 | — |
| Utah | 9 | #453 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #453 | — |
| New York | 38 | #454 | #866 |
| Alabama | 10 | #494 | #853 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #507 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #550 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #589 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 861 | #354 | — | — |
| 2024 | 861 | #364 | — | — |
| 2023 | 713 | #433 | — | — |
| 2022 | 613 | #512 | — | — |
| 2021 | 558 | #547 | — | — |
| 2020 | 455 | #636 | — | — |
| 2019 | 326 | #833 | — | — |
| 2018 | 393 | #724 | — | — |
| 2017 | 384 | #736 | — | — |
| 2016 | 376 | #759 | — | — |
| 2015 | 283 | #958 | — | — |
| 2014 | 237 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 2013 | 193 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2012 | 160 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 2011 | 181 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 2008 | 136 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 2007 | 111 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 2005 | 109 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2002 | 86 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 2000 | 79 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1999 | 60 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 1996 | 70 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1990 | 91 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,680 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,611 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,510 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,806 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,800 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,248 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,075 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,895 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,477 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,108 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,986 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,501 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,481 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,759 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,199 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,917 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,250 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,670 | — | — |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,876 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,192 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,222 | — | — |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,446 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,667 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,459 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,736 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,873 | — | — |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,350 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,783 | — | — |
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).