Elmina vs Elmyra
American parents have registered 834 Elminas since 1880, against 537 Elmyras. Elmina is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Elmina Elmyra
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 102 years in which either name was published, Elmina for 75 years and Elmyra for 27 years. The lead changed hands 30 times.
- 1880–1914 Elmina ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1922–1926 Elmyra ahead
- 1927–1938 Elmina ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1949–1959 Elmyra ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1974–2025 Elmina ahead
21 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Elmina | Elmyra | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 834 | 537 |
| Most in one year | 26 | 24 |
| Babies in 2025 | 12 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 280 | 90 |
| Median age today | 19 | 76 |
| Peak year | 1916 | 1915 |
| Best rank | 1,445th girls | 1,475th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,362nd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1893 |
| Girls / boys | 834 / 0 | 537 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Elmyras alive today are over 76; half the Elminas are over 19. That is 57 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Elmina and Elmyra.