Elnora
Elnora reached its high-water mark in 1924 at number 259, and has been recorded 21,390 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,546th. About 4,700 Elnoras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elnora boys named Elnora
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 21,390
- Estimated living today
- 4,700
- Median age today
- 74
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 259th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,546th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 21,363 / 27
How old the living Elnoras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 21,390 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,700 are alive — 22 in every hundred. Roughly 310 of them are children and 3,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 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 Elnora is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elnora is most concentrated in Mississippi (8.4×), Louisiana (5.0×), Arkansas (4.9×), Alabama (3.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Elnora peaked:
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Elnora 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.