Elmira
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1887 · 31 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,360since 1880
Elmira over time
Rank among girls' names. Elmira has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #4,123 | 14 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 |
| 1962 | #2,073 | 32 |
| 1961 | #2,359 | 26 |
| 1960 | #2,061 | 31 |
| 1959 | #1,852 | 36 |
| 1958 | #1,939 | 32 |
| 1957 | #1,989 | 30 |
| 1956 | #2,249 | 24 |
| 1955 | #2,024 | 28 |
| 1954 | #1,702 | 36 |
| 1953 | #1,671 | 35 |
| 1952 | #1,781 | 31 |
| 1951 | #1,362 | 47 |
| 1950 | #1,626 | 33 |
| 1949 | #1,437 | 41 |
| 1948 | #1,598 | 34 |
| 1947 | #1,633 | 34 |
| 1946 | #1,723 | 27 |
| 1945 | #1,332 | 36 |
| 1944 | #1,224 | 42 |
| 1943 | #1,251 | 42 |
| 1942 | #1,264 | 40 |
| 1941 | #1,101 | 45 |
| 1940 | #1,023 | 49 |
| 1939 | #1,179 | 38 |
| 1938 | #1,018 | 49 |
| 1937 | #940 | 54 |
| 1936 | #1,062 | 43 |
| 1935 | #946 | 54 |
| 1934 | #905 | 57 |
| 1933 | #1,008 | 47 |
| 1932 | #979 | 52 |
| 1931 | #899 | 59 |
| 1930 | #880 | 67 |
| 1929 | #789 | 79 |
| 1928 | #739 | 92 |
| 1927 | #874 | 72 |
| 1926 | #777 | 86 |
| 1925 | #791 | 87 |
| 1924 | #829 | 81 |
| 1923 | #752 | 93 |
| 1922 | #754 | 94 |
| 1921 | #667 | 122 |
| 1920 | #732 | 97 |
| 1919 | #717 | 95 |
| 1918 | #691 | 108 |
| 1917 | #663 | 105 |
| 1916 | #667 | 104 |
| 1915 | #655 | 102 |
| 1914 | #647 | 80 |
| 1913 | #600 | 74 |
| 1912 | #571 | 71 |
| 1911 | #754 | 33 |
| 1910 | #610 | 47 |
| 1909 | #669 | 35 |
| 1908 | #493 | 54 |
| 1907 | #521 | 47 |
| 1906 | #611 | 34 |
| 1905 | #547 | 40 |
| 1904 | #612 | 31 |
| 1903 | #514 | 39 |
| 1902 | #485 | 42 |
| 1901 | #520 | 34 |
| 1900 | #611 | 33 |
| 1899 | #565 | 29 |
| 1898 | #510 | 37 |
| 1897 | #554 | 29 |
| 1896 | #467 | 38 |
| 1895 | #455 | 40 |
| 1894 | #664 | 20 |
| 1893 | #464 | 33 |
| 1892 | #489 | 31 |
| 1891 | #589 | 20 |
| 1890 | #468 | 31 |
| 1889 | #393 | 38 |
| 1888 | #572 | 19 |
| 1887 | #390 | 31 |
| 1886 | #528 | 18 |
| 1885 | #557 | 15 |
| 1884 | #438 | 21 |
| 1883 | #397 | 22 |
| 1882 | #446 | 17 |
| 1881 | #405 | 17 |
| 1880 | #466 | 13 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Elmira was already there! It came in at #466, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Elmira is popular in 1925
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#335 · 1 in 2,377
- Mississippi#338 · 1 in 2,572
- Pennsylvania#484 · 1 in 9,476
- Arkansas#485 · 1 in 4,348
- Alabama#489 · 1 in 5,498
Best ever in a state: #209 in Maryland, 1915.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #335 | 10 | 1 in 2,377 |
| Mississippi | #338 | 9 | 1 in 2,572 |
| Pennsylvania | #484 | 10 | 1 in 9,476 |
| Arkansas | #485 | 5 | 1 in 4,348 |
| Alabama | #489 | 6 | 1 in 5,498 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Elmira
- 1,266 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #8,860)
- 2,230 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #8,860)
- 852 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #8,860)
- Biggest jump: 209 spots in 1895 (#664 → #455)
- Biggest drop: 200 spots in 1894 (#464 → #664)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1887 at #390 (31 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 76 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1880–1932
- Highest: 1 in 4,694 girls born in 1889 were named Elmira (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #390 in 1887, was only 1 in 4,709 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.7% of all girls named Elmira (903) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 211 | #390 (1887) | #459 |
| 1890s | 308 | #455 (1895) | #523 |
| 1900s | 389 | #485 (1902) | #558 |
| 1910s | 819 | #571 (1912) | #658 |
| 1920s | 903 | #667 (1921) | #770 |
| 1930s | 520 | #880 (1930) | #982 |
| 1940s | 390 | #1,023 (1940) | #1,359 |
| 1950s | 332 | #1,362 (1951) | #1,820 |
| 1960s | 180 | #2,061 (1960) | #3,364 |
| 1970s | 87 | #4,123 (1971) | #6,037 |
| 1980s | 32 | #6,888 (1982) | #8,013 |
| 1990s | 26 | #9,247 (1990) | #11,638 |
| 2000s | 19 | #12,676 (2007) | #14,450 |
| 2010s | 88 | #8,008 (2015) | #11,865 |
| 2020s | 56 | #7,594 (2024) | #9,038 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Elmira in 1925
Top girls' names in 1925
More about 1925
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1,217,384 girls got a published name in 1925; 1 in 13,993 of them was named Elmira, which outranked 86.3% of the 5,771 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).