Elfie

Where Elfie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Elfie.

  • Vowel-ended
Elfie through the years
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #817 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #793
    11 babies named Elfie, its best rank.
  3. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,450.
  4. 1924
    Elfie Pertramer born
    German actress and television presenter
  5. 1941
    Elfie Semotan born
    Austrian photographer
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Elfie Pertramer · German actress and television presenter, 1924–2011
  • Elfie Semotan · Austrian photographer, 1941–2026
  • Elfie Simchen · German freestyle skier, born 1967
  • Elfie Donnelly · British-Austrian writer, born 1950
  • Elfie Fiegert · German actress, born 1946

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.