Feminine dossier · first seen 1920

Elwanda

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Elwanda
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1921

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1920Peak 19212024

Peak year

1921

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,272

Elwanda has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1921, when 98 girls were named Elwanda.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,272 Americans have been named Elwanda and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1920.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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