Edelmira

Girls' name

Feminine form of Adelmar

Edelmira has been given to 655 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Edelmira, 2004

1 in 764,000

Edelmira over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edelmira: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Adelmar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Edelmira means

Edelmira is a feminine form of Adelmar.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Edelmira is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /e.ðel.ˈmi.ɾa/ for Edelmira.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Edelmira → Adelmar → *Aþalamār. The family’s meaning is “noble + famous”, recorded in Proto-West Germanic with the source elements aþal and mār.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adelmar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Edelmira is pronounced /edelˈmiɾa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 655 girls were recorded with the name Edelmira between 1917 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1976; its best national rank was #2,308 in 1933.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Edelmira?

Edelmira had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004: 1 in 764,000; 5 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only: 1 in 367,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 529,591 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Edelmira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edelmira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edelmiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edelmira was born before 1958 — so the typical Edelmira is around 67 today.

Median birth year: 1958; About 67 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 22.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 424; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Edelmira rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1976 (17)
Years since peak: 49; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,308; 1933

Spellings of Edelmira

Edelmira is not the most common spelling — Elmira is, with 86.9% against Edelmira's 13.1%.

Elmira86.9%4,360
Edelmira13.1%655

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Edelmira is used

Across 1910–2025, Edelmira was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 97,564 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 50,000
2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Edelmira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Edelmira by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,308; 1933
Peak year: 1976; 17 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 2004
All-time count: 655
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Edelmira

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Edelmira

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

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For a brother

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