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Eudora

#5,136 in 2025Girls' name

Good gift

Eudora has been given to 2,179 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,136 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Eudora, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eudora: meaning, origin, and history

Good gift

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eudora means

Eudora means “good gift”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eudora is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Eudora is pronounced /juːˈdɔərə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,179 girls were recorded with the name Eudora between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 71 in 1923; its best national rank was #631 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,562 in 2020 to #5,136 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,441 in 2015 to #5,136 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 Eudora?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,136
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eudora 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eudora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eudoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eudora was born before 1926 — so the typical Eudora is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
545
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Choose a decade

1920s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (535).

Is Eudora 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
+2,970
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,426
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,305
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.2%
Peak was 1923 (71)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#631
1891

Spellings of Eudora

Eudora is not the most common spelling — Dora is, with 38.0% against Eudora's 0.78%.

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 Eudora is used

Across 1910–2025, Eudora was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 535,988 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Iowa1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 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. Eudora has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eudora around the world

Where Eudora 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
    2007–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • France
    1933–2023
    #7,396
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2022–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Eudora

People whose public names include Eudora, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Eudora by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,136
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,426
Best rank ever
#631
1891
Peak year
1923
71 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,179
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Eudora

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

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Names with a curve like Eudora

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

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Sibling names for Eudora

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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