Meaning not yet researched.
Elvira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 119 in 2025. Its best rank was #254 in 1914.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #254 in 1914; #1,715 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elvira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,715 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1914, at #254.
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Elvira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 119 girls in 2025. Peak: #254 in 1914 · most girls in one year: 592 (1920).
In 2025, 119 US girls were named Elvira, making it the 1,715th most common girls’ name of the year, up 536 places from #2,251 in 2024. That is 36 more than the 83 girls named Elvira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #254, reached in 1914. The most girls given the name in a single year was 592, in 1920. For comparison, it was #3,267 in 2015 and #545 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elvira in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 30 babies with the name. In all, 27,278 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,455 babies named Elvira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 719 US girls were named Elvira; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,506 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elvira ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #949 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elmira (4,360 babies since 1880) and Elvera (5,200 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alvira, Elira and Elvire are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Elvie.
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 Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alvira (927), Elira (190), Elvire (20).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 6 | #949 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #996 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,237 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,323 | #2,097 |
| California | 15 | #1,518 | #2,206 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,525 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 2024 | 83 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 2015 | 50 | #3,267 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,183 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,765 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 2001 | 79 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1993 | 98 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1992 | 106 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1991 | 123 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1990 | 159 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1989 | 100 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1988 | 105 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1987 | 90 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1986 | 102 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1985 | 112 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1984 | 115 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1983 | 120 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1982 | 140 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1981 | 162 | #927 | — | — |
| 1980 | 126 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1979 | 134 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1978 | 141 | #981 | — | — |
| 1977 | 118 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1976 | 147 | #901 | — | — |
| 1975 | 140 | #924 | — | — |
| 1974 | 159 | #832 | — | — |
| 1973 | 135 | #911 | — | — |
| 1972 | 120 | #993 | — | — |
| 1971 | 149 | #892 | — | — |
| 1970 | 152 | #877 | — | — |
| 1969 | 163 | #807 | — | — |
| 1968 | 150 | #831 | — | — |
| 1967 | 148 | #820 | — | — |
| 1966 | 165 | #764 | — | — |
| 1965 | 170 | #759 | — | — |
| 1964 | 165 | #815 | — | — |
| 1963 | 187 | #754 | — | — |
| 1962 | 186 | #763 | — | — |
| 1961 | 202 | #734 | — | — |
| 1960 | 189 | #742 | — | — |
| 1959 | 191 | #734 | — | — |
| 1958 | 213 | #678 | — | — |
| 1957 | 194 | #716 | — | — |
| 1956 | 219 | #642 | — | — |
| 1955 | 233 | #604 | — | — |
| 1954 | 251 | #560 | — | — |
| 1953 | 237 | #571 | — | — |
| 1952 | 239 | #562 | — | — |
| 1951 | 205 | #599 | — | — |
| 1950 | 230 | #545 | — | — |
| 1949 | 237 | #541 | — | — |
| 1948 | 253 | #518 | — | — |
| 1947 | 253 | #525 | — | — |
| 1946 | 242 | #502 | 5 | #3,673 |
| 1945 | 221 | #486 | — | — |
| 1944 | 222 | #480 | — | — |
| 1943 | 244 | #472 | — | — |
| 1942 | 229 | #491 | — | — |
| 1941 | 231 | #456 | — | — |
| 1940 | 239 | #440 | 5 | #3,602 |
| 1939 | 238 | #436 | — | — |
| 1938 | 274 | #403 | — | — |
| 1937 | 237 | #420 | — | — |
| 1936 | 282 | #379 | — | — |
| 1935 | 294 | #370 | — | — |
| 1934 | 310 | #358 | 5 | #3,847 |
| 1933 | 307 | #360 | — | — |
| 1932 | 409 | #316 | 5 | #3,930 |
| 1931 | 379 | #328 | 7 | #3,194 |
| 1930 | 480 | #304 | 6 | #3,706 |
| 1929 | 514 | #285 | — | — |
| 1928 | 481 | #303 | — | — |
| 1927 | 524 | #293 | — | — |
| 1926 | 532 | #290 | — | — |
| 1925 | 526 | #294 | — | — |
| 1924 | 579 | #272 | 5 | #4,541 |
| 1923 | 553 | #274 | — | — |
| 1922 | 574 | #272 | — | — |
| 1921 | 569 | #278 | 6 | #4,006 |
| 1920 | 592 | #268 | — | — |
| 1919 | 553 | #270 | — | — |
| 1918 | 575 | #263 | — | — |
| 1917 | 589 | #255 | — | — |
| 1916 | 567 | #256 | — | — |
| 1915 | 465 | #274 | — | — |
| 1914 | 405 | #254 | — | — |
| 1913 | 327 | #256 | — | — |
| 1912 | 305 | #256 | — | — |
| 1911 | 230 | #255 | — | — |
| 1910 | 213 | #263 | — | — |
| 1909 | 196 | #257 | — | — |
| 1908 | 179 | #266 | — | — |
| 1907 | 154 | #282 | — | — |
| 1906 | 123 | #302 | — | — |
| 1905 | 138 | #282 | — | — |
| 1904 | 116 | #300 | — | — |
| 1903 | 110 | #297 | — | — |
| 1902 | 137 | #266 | — | — |
| 1901 | 105 | #297 | — | — |
| 1900 | 135 | #279 | — | — |
| 1899 | 104 | #286 | — | — |
| 1898 | 113 | #289 | — | — |
| 1897 | 103 | #278 | — | — |
| 1896 | 114 | #268 | — | — |
| 1895 | 94 | #295 | — | — |
| 1894 | 84 | #299 | — | — |
| 1893 | 74 | #313 | — | — |
| 1892 | 81 | #303 | — | — |
| 1891 | 53 | #347 | — | — |
| 1890 | 64 | #315 | — | — |
| 1889 | 60 | #316 | — | — |
| 1888 | 59 | #312 | — | — |
| 1887 | 51 | #298 | — | — |
| 1886 | 59 | #272 | — | — |
| 1885 | 53 | #273 | — | — |
| 1884 | 39 | #316 | — | — |
| 1883 | 26 | #358 | — | — |
| 1882 | 31 | #320 | — | — |
| 1881 | 38 | #262 | — | — |
| 1880 | 30 | #283 | — | — |
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).