Elva

Where Elva comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Elva.

  • Vowel-ended
Elva through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #233 among girls, with 44 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1896
    Elva Lawton born
    American botanist and bryologist
  3. 1901
    Peak, #161
    283 babies named Elva, its best rank.
  4. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #869.
  5. 1979
    Elva Hsiao born
    Taiwanese singer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Elva Hsiao · Taiwanese singer, born 1979
  • Elva Lawton · American botanist and bryologist, 1896–1993
  • Elva Goulbourne · Jamaican long jumper, born 1980
  • Elva Ambía · Peruvian Quechua writer, born 1941
  • Elva R. Kendall · U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1893–1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.