Elif
- #1,911 for girls in 2025, 101 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 115 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,534since 1977
Elif over time
Rank among girls' names. Elif has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,911 | 101 |
| 2024 | #1,753 | 115 |
| 2023 | #2,124 | 90 |
| 2022 | #1,898 | 106 |
| 2021 | #2,186 | 85 |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 |
| 2018 | #2,647 | 65 |
| 2017 | #2,573 | 68 |
| 2016 | #2,560 | 69 |
| 2015 | #3,129 | 53 |
| 2014 | #2,412 | 75 |
| 2013 | #3,042 | 54 |
| 2012 | #2,901 | 59 |
| 2011 | #3,452 | 46 |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 |
| 2008 | #4,268 | 36 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
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| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Elif! It came in at #8,444, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Elif is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#947 · 1 in 4,896
- Washington#1,046 · 1 in 5,772
- Pennsylvania#1,108 · 1 in 6,670
- New Jersey#1,168 · 1 in 7,100
- Florida#1,170 · 1 in 7,230
Best ever in a state: #675 in Massachusetts, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #947 | 16 | 1 in 4,896 |
| Washington | #1,046 | 5 | 1 in 5,772 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,108 | 7 | 1 in 6,670 |
| New Jersey | #1,168 | 5 | 1 in 7,100 |
| Florida | #1,170 | 12 | 1 in 7,230 |
| Illinois | #1,240 | 6 | 1 in 7,388 |
| Texas | #2,210 | 9 | 1 in 17,838 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Elif
- 158 spots since 2024 (#1,753 → #1,911)
- 305 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #1,911)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2024 at #1,753 (115 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,089 girls born in 2024 were named Elif (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,914 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.4% of all girls named Elif (589) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 6 | #8,444 (1977) | #8,444 |
| 1980s | 42 | #8,153 (1984) | #9,773 |
| 1990s | 110 | #5,868 (1997) | #8,347 |
| 2000s | 209 | #4,013 (2009) | #6,990 |
| 2010s | 589 | #2,412 (2014) | #2,916 |
| 2020s | 578 | #1,753 (2024) | #2,015 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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