Elige

Last seen for boys in 1971 at #4,907

Peak · boys
1880 · 9 births
Debut · boys
9 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
528
since 1880

Elige over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Elige has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201885peak #640, 1880boys
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1971#4,9075
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1962#4,0335
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1960#4,0385
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1957#3,5526
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1952#3,3736
1951#3,7145
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1946#2,03013
1945#3,3385
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1943#2,9647
1942#2,38610
1941#3,1336
1940#2,17911
1939#2,8297
1938#2,4799
1937#3,5185
1936#2,6298
1935#2,9517
1934#2,7428
1933#2,5429
1932#2,6389
1931#2,20712
1930#2,7819
1929#2,45211
1928#4,1515
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1926#2,9049
1925#2,01216
1924#1,83919
1923#3,1758
1922#2,80110
1921#3,5177
1920#2,23114
1919#1,97316
1918#2,26013
1917#1,98615
1916#1,84916
1915#2,31011
1914#1,97511
1913#1,67611
1912#1,61910
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1910#78215
1909#1,2776
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1907#1,2006
1906#1,1116
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1904#9667
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1900#9029
1899#7149
1898#1,0026
1897#9426
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1892#9566
1891#8416
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1889#9745
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1886#6948
1885#6419
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1883#8925
1882#6918
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1880#6409
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Elige was already there! It came in at #640, and was given to 9 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1881, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Elige is popular in 1885

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Elige
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1971
  • Biggest jump: 495 spots in 1910 (#1,277 → #782)
  • Biggest drop: 408 spots in 1911 (#782 → #1,190)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1880 at #640 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 15 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1882–1883
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,801
  • Highest: 1 in 11,801 boys born in 1899 were named Elige (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 353,689 boys born in 1971 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #640 in 1880, was only 1 in 12,277 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 24.1% of all boys named Elige (127) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s44#640 (1880)#755
1890s45#714 (1899)#913
1900s40#902 (1900)#1,091
1910s127#782 (1910)#1,762
1920s99#1,839 (1924)#2,787
1930s83#2,207 (1931)#2,732
1940s52#2,030 (1946)#2,672
1950s23#3,329 (1950)#3,492
1960s10#4,033 (1962)#4,036
1970s5#4,907 (1971)#4,907

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Elige in 1885

boys
#641
9 births · 1 in 11,978 boys

Top boys' names in 1885

  1. #1John8,756
  2. #2William8,044
  3. #3James5,175
  4. #4George4,674
  5. #5Charles4,599
  6. #6Frank3,067
  7. #7Joseph2,540
  8. #8Henry2,406
  9. #9Robert2,322
  10. #10Thomas2,266
  11. #641Elige9
More about 1885

boys

107,799 boys got a published name in 1885; 1 in 11,978 of them was named Elige, which outranked 41.6% of the 1,097 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Elige
  1. #604West10
  2. #604Worley10
  3. #604Young10
  4. #641Elige9
  5. #641Alec9
  6. #641Alice9
  7. #641Angelo9
  8. #700Alonza8
  9. #700Alvie8
  10. #700Andres8

Tied with 58 names at #641; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1884
Risers
  1. ↑ 426Bryant#848 → #422
  2. ↑ 424Butler#971 → #547
  3. ↑ 424Cyril#971 → #547
  4. ↑ 409Gerhard#848 → #439
  5. ↑ 394Rowland#971 → #577
Fallers
  1. ↓ 520Clarance#416 → #936
  2. ↓ 416Oswald#520 → #936
  3. ↓ 389Doctor#547 → #936
  4. ↓ 366Dexter#570 → #936
  5. ↓ 366Gustaf#570 → #936

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1885 →