Electra
2025 SSA
About Electra
Though the plays by Sophocles and Eugene O'Neill and via the "Electra Complex" proposed by psychoanalyst Carl Jung, this name has, unfortunately, become associated with incest and murder.
Nevertheless, if you can put the mythology and theory aside, Electra makes a bright, spikey, electric feeling choice, with a shiny, gemstone meaning. If you can't, you could follow actress Isabella Rossellini who chose the gentler Italian version, Elettra, for her now grown daughter.
Pronounced eh-LEK-trah.
As of October 2026, Electra ranked #8000 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2215 in 1910.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Electra on lists
Famous Electras
- Electra Havemeyer Webb
American antiques collector; daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer and Louisine Elder
- Electra Webb
daughter of Electra Havemeyer Webb
- Electra Collins Doren
American suffragist and library scientist
- Electra Niarchos (b. 1995)
daughter of Greek shipping heir Philip Niarchos and Victoria Guinness
- Carmen Electra
American actress
- Anna Michaela Ebba Electra von Hausswolff
Swedish singer, pianist, organist and songwriter.
Electra in pop culture
- Electra
princess of Argos in Greek mythology, who plotted to kill her mother Clytemnestra as revenge for the murder of her father Agamemnon
- Electra Complex
female equivalent of an Oedipal Complex
- "Mourning Becomes Electra
" play cycle by Eugene O'Neill
- "Electra Heart
" album by Marina and the Diamonds, inspired by her alter ego Electra
- Electra
kitten in musical "Cats"
- Electra the Electric Train
character in musical "Starlight Express"
- Electra
Cathy's dog from the comic strip "Cathy"
- Electra
protagonist of the movie Love by Gaspar Noe.
Variations & nicknames
- ElettraItalian