Elnora
#6,546 in the US in 2025
Elnora in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Elnora in New Zealand
Elnora never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #238 | 42 |
| 1890 | #286 | 76 |
| 1900 | #235 | 182 |
| 1910 | #248 | 241 |
| 1920 | #265 | 607 |
| 1930 | #334 | 376 |
| 1940 | #415 | 275 |
| 1950 | #630 | 182 |
| 1960 | #1,081 | 99 |
| 1970 | #2,017 | 41 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Elnora most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Mississippi | 1,633 |
| Louisiana | 1,390 |
| Texas | 1,217 |
| North Carolina | 1,091 |
| Alabama | 984 |
| Georgia | 962 |
| Virginia | 939 |
| Arkansas | 820 |
| Indiana | 569 |
| Tennessee | 525 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026