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Eldora

About 4,065 American babies have been named Eldora since 1880, most of them around 1923. It has not appeared in the national data since 2020. About 710 Eldoras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 78.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Eldora

By the numbers

Total US births
4,065
Estimated living today
710
Median age today
78
Peak year
1923
Best rank
574th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1880

How old the living Eldoras are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,065 babies given the name since 1880, about 710 are alive — 17 in every hundred. Roughly 11 of them are children and 570 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1947 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Eldora is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Eldora is most concentrated in South Dakota (11.2×), North Dakota (7.7×), Minnesota (7.3×), Iowa (5.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1923

The most popular girls’ names the year Eldora peaked:

All the names of 1923

Related names

Eldora against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.