Elli

#2,957 for girls in 2025, 56 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #10,775
Given to girls 98.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
2014 · 121 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,763
since 1955

Elli over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Elli has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201955peak #1,728, 2014girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,95756—
2024#2,93056—
2023#2,55569—
2022#2,85659—
2021#2,67464—
2020#2,44171—
2019#2,42873—
2018#2,21783—
2017#2,54669#10,7756
2016#2,05496#9,6647
2015#2,03996#12,0865
2014#1,728121—
2013#2,05294—
2012#1,831110#9,7097
2011#2,07393—
2010#1,818112—
2009#2,005103—
2008#2,004104—
2007#2,34881—
2006#2,05096—
2005#2,08889—
2004#1,756109—
2003#1,94793—
2002#1,86695—
2001#2,66356#10,5565
2000#2,70854—
1999#2,64053—
1998#2,75648—
1997#2,97740—
1996#3,83128—
1995#3,08737—
1994#3,70429—
1993#5,41917—
1992#4,23624—
1991#4,49722—
1990#4,86819—
1989#5,28616—
1988#6,66611#7,2705
1987#6,78810—
1986#5,45913—
1985#6,9559—
1984#7,3988—
1983#8,0477—
1982#4,94514—
1981#4,00519—
1980#6,7899—
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1978#8,5626—
1977#6,3409—
1976#6,6118—
1975#5,51610—
1974#4,72012—
1973#6,6667—
1972#7,2926—
1971#4,81011—
1970#7,0706—
1969#7,4715—
1968#6,2466—
1967#6,8045—
1966#5,2737—
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1962#4,5339—
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1959#6,2455—
1958#6,1035—
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1956#5,9525—
1955#5,2086—
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First appearance
1955

The first year at least five girls were named Elli! It came in at #5,208, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1956–1961, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Elli is popular in 1955

No state had 5 or more girls named Elli in 1955, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Elli
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 27 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #2,957)
  • 516 spots since 2020 (#2,441 → #2,957)
  • 918 spots since 2015 (#2,039 → #2,957)
Rise & fade · girls
59 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1955
  • Peaked 2014 at #1,728 (121 births)
  • Births halved by 2022, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,763
  • Highest: 1 in 14,763 girls born in 2014 were named Elli (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 28,701 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 34.3% of all girls named Elli (947) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s21#5,208 (1955)#5,877
1960s32#4,533 (1962)#6,065
1970s75#4,720 (1974)#6,399
1980s116#4,005 (1981)#6,234
1990s317#2,640 (1999)#3,802
2000s880#1,756 (2004)#2,144
2010s947#1,728 (2014)#2,079
2020s375#2,441 (2020)#2,736

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.

Elli in 1955

girls
#5,208
6 births · 1 in 325,880 girls

Top girls' names in 1955

  1. #1Mary63,174
  2. #2Deborah52,318
  3. #3Linda51,300
  4. #4Debra50,563
  5. #5Susan47,418
  6. #6Patricia46,226
  7. #7Barbara33,617
  8. #8Karen33,217
  9. #9Nancy30,023
  10. #10Donna27,940
  11. #5,208Elli6
More about 1955

girls

1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 325,880 of them was named Elli, which outranked 22.6% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Elli
  1. #4,740Zelpha7
  2. #4,740Zeta7
  3. #4,740Zully7
  4. #5,208Elli6
  5. #5,208Abra6
  6. #5,208Adah6
  7. #5,208Adonica6
  8. #5,828Abagail5
  9. #5,828Abelina5
  10. #5,828Adalene5

Tied with 619 names at #5,208; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1954
Risers
  1. ↑ 793Athena#1,505 → #712
  2. ↑ 675Desiree#984 → #309
  3. ↑ 661Roni#1,197 → #536
  4. ↑ 630Gisele#1,444 → #814
  5. ↑ 593Carmel#1,422 → #829
Fallers
  1. ↓ 514Valinda#806 → #1,320
  2. ↓ 378Elouise#969 → #1,347
  3. ↓ 287Veda#831 → #1,118
  4. ↓ 275Drema#978 → #1,253
  5. ↓ 264Brooke#965 → #1,229

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

See the top 100 for 1955 →