Elly

#1,611 for girls in 2025, 129 births · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #12,491
Given to girls 99.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
2010 · 191 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,585
since 1921

Elly over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201921peak #1,253, 2010girls
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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#1,611129—
2024#1,732117—
2023#1,792113—
2022#1,560136—
2021#1,750117—
2020#1,518140—
2019#1,548139—
2018#1,590135—
2017#1,515146—
2016#1,394167—
2015#1,488154—
2014#1,345174—
2013#1,328176—
2012#1,384168—
2011#1,440157—
2010#1,253191—
2009#1,620138#12,4915
2008#1,789122—
2007#1,666133—
2006#1,627130—
2005#1,731114—
2004#1,601122—
2003#1,845100—
2002#1,780101—
2001#2,15176—
2000#2,45762—
1999#1,84486—
1998#3,57333—
1997#3,16137—
1996#3,23736—
1995#3,67029—
1994#3,53631—
1993#2,99039—
1992#3,41932—
1991#3,63329—
1990#3,71428—
1989#2,98636—
1988#4,65318—
1987#4,28319—
1986#3,45925—
1985#3,98320—
1984#4,47816—
1983#5,45712—
1982#3,53023—
1981#2,98629—
1980#2,74933—
1979#2,86030—
1978#3,63720—
1977#3,76119#5,8455
1976#2,93225—
1975#3,25921—
1974#3,11022—
1973#4,87111—
1972#5,10910—
1971#3,50818—
1970#3,71216—
1969#3,46116—
1968#3,31516—
1967#4,6259—
1966#3,74012—
1965#3,05017—
1964#2,91519—
1963#3,17616—
1962#3,78212—
1961#2,95718—
1960#5,1687—
1959#3,61912—
1958#3,54312—
1957#4,5368—
1956#5,3256—
1955#4,7407—
1954#3,9679—
1953#3,68710—
1952#4,9086—
1951#3,28411—
1950#4,3157—
1949#4,2357—
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1929#4,0536—
1928#2,95410—
1927#4,8055—
1926#3,2699—
1925#3,11610—
1924#4,0027—
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First appearance
1921

The first year at least five girls were named Elly! It came in at #3,400, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1922–1923, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Elly is popular in 1921

No state had 5 or more girls named Elly in 1921, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Elly
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 121 spots since 2024 (#1,732 → #1,611)
  • 93 spots since 2020 (#1,518 → #1,611)
  • 123 spots since 2015 (#1,488 → #1,611)
Rise & fade · girls
89 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1921
  • Peaked 2010 at #1,253 (191 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 9,307
  • Highest: 1 in 9,307 girls born in 2010 were named Elly (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 12,459 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 35.0% of all girls named Elly (1,607) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s61#2,954 (1928)#3,826
1930s8#3,226 (1931)#3,226
1940s26#3,863 (1940)#4,142
1950s88#3,284 (1951)#4,192
1960s142#2,915 (1964)#3,619
1970s192#2,860 (1979)#3,676
1980s231#2,749 (1980)#3,856
1990s380#1,844 (1999)#3,278
2000s1,098#1,601 (2004)#1,827
2010s1,607#1,253 (2010)#1,429
2020s752#1,518 (2020)#1,661

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.

Elly in 1921

girls
#3,400
9 births · 1 in 137,006 girls

Top girls' names in 1921

  1. #1Mary73,984
  2. #2Dorothy39,087
  3. #3Helen34,822
  4. #4Margaret28,468
  5. #5Ruth25,783
  6. #6Virginia19,032
  7. #7Mildred17,880
  8. #8Betty17,638
  9. #9Frances15,993
  10. #10Elizabeth15,800
  11. #3,400Elly9
More about 1921

girls

1,233,058 girls got a published name in 1921; 1 in 137,006 of them was named Elly, which outranked 42.1% of the 5,871 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Elly
  1. #3,164Wm10
  2. #3,164Zeda10
  3. #3,164Zelta10
  4. #3,400Elly9
  5. #3,400Adalyn9
  6. #3,400Adelyne9
  7. #3,400Adina9
  8. #3,666Ader8
  9. #3,666Adine8
  10. #3,666Agapita8

Tied with 265 names at #3,400; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1920
Risers
  1. ↑ 4,238Elwanda#4,975 → #737
  2. ↑ 458Noreen#1,255 → #797
  3. ↑ 440Venice#1,375 → #935
  4. ↑ 343Isobel#1,312 → #969
  5. ↑ 306Aida#1,119 → #813
Fallers
  1. ↓ 612Lilia#931 → #1,543
  2. ↓ 345Denise#931 → #1,276
  3. ↓ 330Aleen#968 → #1,298
  4. ↓ 269Virgil#968 → #1,237
  5. ↓ 265Aldona#903 → #1,168

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

See the top 100 for 1921 →