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Elektra

#6,386 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Electra

Elektra has been given to 828 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #6,386 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Elektra, 2025

1 in 184,000

Elektra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elektra: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Electra

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elektra means

Elektra is a form of Electra.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elektra → Electra. The family’s meaning is “amber”, recorded in English with the source elements ḗlektron.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Electra.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 828 girls were recorded with the name Elektra between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 2005; its best national rank was #2,282 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,659 in 2020 to #6,386 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,753 in 2015 to #6,386 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elektra?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,386
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elektra 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 2025 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elektra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elektras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elektra was born before 2009 — so the typical Elektra is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
828
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (379).

Is Elektra 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
−382
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,273
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,633
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.8%
Peak was 2005 (79)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,282
2005

Spellings of Elektra

Elektra is not the most common spelling — Elenora is, with 53.7% against Elektra's 12.1%.

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 Elektra is used

Across 1910–2025, Elektra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 352,372 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Missouri1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Elektra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elektra around the world

Where Elektra ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2017
    #7,170
    in 2017
  • Canada
    2005–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1964–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elektra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,386
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,273
Best rank ever
#2,282
2005
Peak year
2005
79 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
828
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Elektra

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

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Sibling names for Elektra

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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