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
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 121 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,763since 1955
Elli over time
Rank among girls' names. Elli 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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,957 | 56 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,555 | 69 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,856 | 59 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,674 | 64 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,441 | 71 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,428 | 73 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,217 | 83 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,546 | 69 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #2,054 | 96 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #2,039 | 96 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #1,728 | 121 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,052 | 94 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,831 | 110 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #2,073 | 93 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,818 | 112 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,005 | 103 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,004 | 104 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,348 | 81 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,050 | 96 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,088 | 89 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,756 | 109 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,947 | 93 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,866 | 95 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,663 | 56 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #2,708 | 54 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,704 | 29 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
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| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
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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 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Indiana#1,010 · 1 in 5,967
- Washington#1,041 · 1 in 5,964
- North Carolina#1,184 · 1 in 7,383
- Ohio#1,257 · 1 in 8,766
- Illinois#1,605 · 1 in 11,591
Best ever in a state: #298 in Nebraska, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | #1,010 | 5 | 1 in 5,967 |
| Washington | #1,041 | 5 | 1 in 5,964 |
| North Carolina | #1,184 | 6 | 1 in 7,383 |
| Ohio | #1,257 | 6 | 1 in 8,766 |
| Illinois | #1,605 | 5 | 1 in 11,591 |
| California | #1,811 | 13 | 1 in 15,782 |
| Florida | #1,994 | 5 | 1 in 16,232 |
| Texas | #3,165 | 5 | 1 in 32,194 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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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 Elli
- 27 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #2,957)
- 516 spots since 2020 (#2,441 → #2,957)
- 918 spots since 2015 (#2,039 → #2,957)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 2014 at #1,728 (121 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 34.3% of all girls named Elli (947) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 21 | #5,208 (1955) | #5,877 |
| 1960s | 32 | #4,533 (1962) | #6,065 |
| 1970s | 75 | #4,720 (1974) | #6,399 |
| 1980s | 116 | #4,005 (1981) | #6,234 |
| 1990s | 317 | #2,640 (1999) | #3,802 |
| 2000s | 880 | #1,756 (2004) | #2,144 |
| 2010s | 947 | #1,728 (2014) | #2,079 |
| 2020s | 375 | #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 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 18,668 of them was named Elli, which outranked 89.4% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,032Rowyn95
- #2,032Skyy95
- #2,032Suzanne95
- #2,052Elli94
- #2,052Annemarie94
- #2,052Elyana94
- #2,052Emeline94
- #2,064Aeris93
- #2,064Amaia93
- #2,064Brooklynne93
Tied with 11 names at #2,052; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.