Edelmira
Feminine · “noble and famous”
Edelmira is a Spanish name built from Germanic parts, and it is a good deal commoner in Spanish than anything like it is in German. Its first element is the one in the name of a flower that is protected by law across the Alps.
How old is the name Edelmira?
Edelmira first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Edelmira alive today was born around 1960, making them about 65 years old. About 500 people named Edelmira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Edelmira most popular?
Edelmira peaked in 1933, reaching #2275 nationally. See the whole 1933 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Edelmira
Edelweiss means noble white, and the flower has been protected by law for well over a century — Switzerland and Austria began restricting the picking of it in the eighteen-hundreds, and it remains an offense to take it in most Alpine jurisdictions. It grows on limestone at high altitude, and the felt of white hairs covering it is an adaptation to ultraviolet light and cold rather than decoration. The romance around it is Victorian: climbers brought it down as proof of where they had been, and it became a token of courtship on the grounds that fetching one was dangerous. It is not the national flower of Austria in any legal sense, and the song that most English speakers associate with it was written for an American musical.
Meaning
noble and famous
From two Germanic elements, one meaning noble and one meaning famous or renowned — the same pair that stand in a good many names the Visigoths brought into Spain and that Spanish kept long after German had moved on.
Pronouncing Edelmira
eh-del-MEE-rah
Four syllables with the stress on the third, which is where Spanish puts it by default. Every letter is sounded, including both e's at the front.
Nicknames for Edelmira
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1917
- Most girls named
- 197617 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2275reached in 1933
- Change vs 2003
- −50.0%5 in 2004, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Edelmira in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Edelmira in Spanish — same name
- Edelmira in Portuguese — same name
Edelmiras among us
people named Edelmira are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Edelmira sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is documented and the elements are both real.
- Mira detaches cleanly and is a standing name in several languages.
- Every letter is said, so the spelling follows from the sound.
- Edelmira, Adelmira and Elmira will all be written for it.
- Four syllables is long for American forms and gets shortened.
- English speakers stumble on the two e's before the stress.
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- How many Edelmiras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Edelmira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Edelmira in 2025?
- Edelmira is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Edelmira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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