Elwanda
Elwanda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 739th, in 1921.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192198 births
- Best rank
- #739in 1921
- Since 1920
- 1,272people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,272 girls have been named Elwanda in the United States since 1920, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 98 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 98 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 39%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1921, its biggest year
Elwanda was the 739th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Elwanda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bettepeak 1924
- Bettyloupeak 1927
- Margypeak 1929
- Shirliepeak 1935
- Merlinepeak 1924
- Shirleepeak 1935
- Bettypeak 1930
- Arlisspeak 1933
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.