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Elta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Elta has been given to 1,415 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1915, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Elta, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elta means

Elta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Elta is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,415 girls were recorded with the name Elta between 1881 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1915; its best national rank was #550 in 1881.

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 Elta?

Elta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elta 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eltas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elta was born before 1919 — so the typical Elta is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.71%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (319).

Is Elta 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (43)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#550
1881

Spellings of Elta

Elta is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 20.4% against Elta's 0.04%.

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 Elta is used

Across 1910–2025, Elta was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 374,384 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Kentucky1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Elta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elta 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
#550
1881
Peak year
1915
43 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,415
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elta

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

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Sibling names for Elta

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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