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Elzada vs Elzora

American parents have registered 567 Elzoras since 1880, against 229 Elzadas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Elzada against Elzora, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Elzada Elzora

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 51 years in which either name was published, Elzora for 48 years and Elzada for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Elzada Elzora
Total US births 229567
Most in one year 1424
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2060
Median age today 8385
Peak year 19341927
Best rank 2,187th girls1,728th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18911887
Girls / boys 229 / 0567 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Elzoras alive today are over 85; half the Elzadas are over 83. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Elzada and Elzora.