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Elida

Elida is a girl's name that peaked in 1946, when it was the 672nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 4,172nd. About 5,200 Elidas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Elida

By the numbers

Total US births
7,776
Estimated living today
5,200
Median age today
51
Peak year
1946
Best rank
672nd
Rank in 2025
4,172nd
First recorded
1886

How old the living Elidas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 7,776 babies given the name since 1886, about 5,200 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 680 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Elida is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Elida is most concentrated in Texas (10.9×), California (1.3×), Illinois (0.2×), Florida (0.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1946

The most popular girls’ names the year Elida peaked:

All the names of 1946

Elida elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Norway girls Elida 1,366 81st
France girls Elida 255 486th
England and Wales girls Elida 18 4,684th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Elida by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 6 408th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Elida among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Elida 52 202

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Elida lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 957 women called Elida were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Lugo Elida 62 0.369 326
Coruña, A Elida 169 0.286 359
Ourense Elida 41 0.258 394
Pontevedra Elida 89 0.181 478
Asturias Elida 80 0.151 572
León Elida 26 0.113 711

Listed in 26 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 26 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Elida against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.