Elvira
About Elvira
Before there was the campy TV Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Elvira was the long-suffering wife of Don Juan, and remnants of those negative, gothic images still cling to it, though they are fading.
Other references include the romantic film Elvira Madigan, based on a real person, and the main ghostly character in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, as well as appearances in several operas.
Elvira was in common use in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, remaining in the Top 1000 until 1981; it's still popular in Scandinavia, ranking Number 39 in Sweden.
Pronounced el-VEER-uh.
As of October 2026, Elvira ranked #1715 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #254 in 1914, Nameberry popularity #624.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,051 | 55 | 30.8 |
| 2015 | #3,265 | 50 | 28 |
| 2016 | #2,625 | 67 | 37.8 |
| 2017 | #2,639 | 66 | 38.2 |
| 2018 | #3,121 | 52 | 30.6 |
| 2019 | #2,829 | 59 | 35.2 |
| 2020 | #2,556 | 67 | 41.4 |
| 2021 | #2,830 | 60 | 36.6 |
| 2022 | #2,584 | 68 | 41.5 |
| 2023 | #2,340 | 78 | 48.6 |
| 2024 | #2,280 | 81 | 50 |
| 2025 | #1,715 | 119 | 74 |
World rankings
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Elvira on lists
Famous Elviras
- Elvira
Mistress of the Dark, stage name of Cassandra Peterson, American actress and TV personality
- Elvira "Elli" Parvo
Italian actress
- Elvira Minguez
Spanish actress
- Elvira Dones
Albanian novelist and screenwriter
- Elvira Devinamira Wirayanti
Miss Indonesia 2014
- Elvira Possekel
German Olympic runner
- Elvira Zurabovna Todua
Russian footballer
- Elvira Kunis
mother of American actress Mila Kunis
- Elvira Madigan
stage name of Danish tightrope walker Hedvig Jensen
- Elvira Rahic
Bosnian folk,pop singer
- Elvira Wayans
American TV writer
Elvira in pop culture
- Elvira
character in some of the operas and poems on Don Juan
- Elvira Hancock
character in movie "Scarface"
- Elvira Slayer
character in "Sims" series
- Elvira
song by the "Oak Ridge Boys"
- Elvira
character in Helen Dunmore's 'Ingo' books
- Elvira Martinez
main character in Mexican film 'Elvira, te daría mi vida pero la estoy usando'