Elora
Meaning
modern coinage popularized by the film Willow
The story
Elora is a modern-feeling name with a longer memory than it lets on: flickers in the record from the 1910s onward, a few dozen a decade, before the film that named a generation's sleeping princess, Willow's infant Elora Danan, put it in circulation, about 130 in the 1980s becoming 620 in the 1990s; the record shows the timing, and timing is all a record can show. The build since has been steady: about 1,000 in the 2000s, 2,700 in the 2010s, and already 4,100 so far this decade, more than one and a half times the full 2010s with years to run. It goes to girls without exception: about 8,800 to none. Willow itself, about 65,600, carries its own story here. A fantasy film's foundling, a sound like Eleanora said in one breath, and a record finally catching up to the melody.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Elora peaked in the 2020s.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
471 people · the #13,954 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 18
Among people named Elora living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 81 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Elora
Most people given the name Elora in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Elora deep dive
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