Entry № 2930 · Spanish origin

Elvira Elvira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ el-VEER-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"True / trustworthy (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark; Mozart's Don Giovanni)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "true / trustworthy (elvira, mistress of the dark; mozart's don giovanni)".

Elvira is from the Old Germanic Gailwira — gail ("happy, joyful") + wer ("truth") — popularized in Spain through the Visigothic queens; later embraced by Spanish opera tradition. 21 became forever linked to it.

True / trustworthy.

The name in its native script.

Elvira
Transliteration
Elvira
Pronunciation
/ ɛlˈvɪər.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Elvira stands.

Elvira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Elviras before her.

Real people
Cassandra Peterson (Elvira)
American horror host.
born 1951
In fiction
Donna Elvira
Mozart's Don Giovanni.
1787
Elvira
Mistress of the Dark.
1981

Names connected to Elvira.

The number behind Elvira.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Elvira reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.