Name meaning & stats
Elma
Elma. 5,267 US babies since 1940, peak 1942.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
A modern coinage.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1942
5,267 US babies were named Elma between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Elma (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1942)