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Eldora

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Eldora has been given to 4,065 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1923, with 156 recorded.

Babies named Eldora, 2020

1 in 557,000

Eldora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eldora: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eldora means

Eldora is a given name.

The naming story behind Eldora

Wikidata records Eldora as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q115193594, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,065 girls were recorded with the name Eldora between 1880 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 156 in 1923; its best national rank was #525 in 1880.

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.

How common is Eldora?

Eldora had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eldora 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eldora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eldoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eldora was born before 1925 — so the typical Eldora is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.27%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
352
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1920s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (1,289).

Is Eldora 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
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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 1923 (156)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#525
1880

Spellings of Eldora

Eldora is not the most common spelling — Dora is, with 29.1% against Eldora's 1.1%.

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 Eldora is used

Across 1910–2025, Eldora was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 92,294 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 10,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 16,667
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 16,667
  4. 4Georgia1 in 25,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 25,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 33,333
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 33,333

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. Eldora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eldora 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
#525
1880
Peak year
1923
156 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
4,065
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eldora

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

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Names with a curve like Eldora

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Eldora, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Eldora

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

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