In 2025, 25 US girls were named Eudora, making it the 5,137th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,974 places from #8,111 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 13 girls named Eudora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #631, reached in 1891. The most girls given the name in a single year was 71, in 1923. For comparison, it was #13,446 in 2015 and #2,373 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eudora in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 2,179 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 535 babies named Eudora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 142 US girls were named Eudora; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Idora and Edora are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dora.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.