Elmore
Elmore is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 402nd, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918131 births
- Best rank
- #402in 1896
- Since 1880
- 3,957people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,957 boys have been named Elmore in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 131 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 131 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elmore | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 117 | |
| 1890s | 154 | |
| 1900s | 206 | |
| 1910s | 789 | |
| 1920s | 849 | |
| 1930s | 554 | |
| 1940s | 484 | |
| 1950s | 394 | |
| 1960s | 176 | |
| 1970s | 145 | |
| 1980s | 50 | |
| 1990s | 18 | |
| 2000s | 16 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Elmore was the 530th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Elmore
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clarencepeak 1921
- Homerpeak 1920
- Ludwigpeak 1916
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Obiepeak 1924
- Elmerpeak 1918
- Waldopeak 1915
- Freemanpeak 1918
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.