Elmina

Where Elmina comes from

Elmina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1828
    Elmina M. Roys Gavitt born
    American physician; medical journal founder, editor-in-chief
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #628 among girls with 8 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1897
    Elmina Moisan born
    Chilean painter
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Elmina M. Roys Gavitt · American physician; medical journal founder, editor-in-chief, 1828–1898
  • Elmina Moisan · Chilean painter, 1897–1938
  • Elmina Otsman · Estonian Soviet figure, agricultural worker, 1924–2012
  • Elmina Wilson · 1870–1918
  • Elmina D. Slenker · American writer and anarchist, 1827–1908

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.