Elvie

#3,832 for girls in 2025, 38 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls 78.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1881 · 9 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,704
since 1881

Elvie over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201896peak #582, 1881peak #783, 1903girlsboys
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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#3,83238—
2024#4,20734—
2023#4,36332—
2022#4,20234—
2021#6,17419—
2020#8,40612—
2019#7,34215—
2018#8,61712—
2017#12,7137—
2016#7,23016—
2015#13,0067—
2014#14,5586—
2013#13,1507—
2012#16,8695—
2011——
2010——
2009——
2008——
2007——
2006——
2005——
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2003——
2002——
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1997——
1996——
1995——
1994——
1993——
1992——
1991——
1990——
1989—#7,9055
1988——
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1983——
1982——
1981#8,1287—
1980——
1979——
1978——
1977——
1976—#4,9356
1975—#5,4645
1974——
1973#7,4356—
1972#6,5587—
1971#6,6197—
1970—#3,8367
1969—#2,54912
1968——
1967#4,9828—
1966#5,8096#3,2497
1965#4,20210—
1964#6,0096—
1963#4,27210#3,0448
1962——
1961—#3,0978
1960#4,7738#3,3377
1959#2,98016#3,9885
1958#4,1939#2,64210
1957#3,48912—
1956#3,49312#3,5356
1955#4,7407#3,5056
1954#3,71810#3,1767
1953#2,69916#3,7985
1952#3,37211#2,51410
1951#3,48210#2,8448
1950#2,43617#2,7708
1949#2,85013#3,0197
1948#2,07022#2,44310
1947#2,89813#3,0967
1946#2,48215#2,14312
1945#1,74323#2,24210
1944#2,09617#1,89014
1943#1,59128#2,07413
1942#1,70624#1,73017
1941#1,47228#3,1336
1940#1,74521#2,6718
1939#1,10242#3,1136
1938#1,43727#1,52120
1937#1,25533#1,62718
1936#1,20635#1,96413
1935#1,16237#2,39610
1934#1,37228#3,2776
1933#1,15837#1,64418
1932#1,32031#2,19112
1931#1,25833#2,32811
1930#1,19739#1,88916
1929#1,05148#1,84817
1928#96759#1,96016
1927#85075#2,40812
1926#95861#2,72510
1925#1,07450#1,87018
1924#92068#1,62823
1923#1,12946#1,87418
1922#89766#2,04016
1921#78487#1,98017
1920#85771#1,74720
1919#77183#1,75219
1918#85171#1,82718
1917#72992#1,47923
1916#80272#1,69818
1915#83161#1,34225
1914#75958#1,97511
1913#72152#1,49713
1912#79539#1,26814
1911#74134#1,11710
1910#79429—
1909#77327#1,2776
1908#69831#1,3735
1907#64933—
1906#76523—
1905#64230#1,0916
1904#75522—
1903#73421#7839
1902#60030—
1901#85715—
1900#70526#1,3105
1899#62924—
1898#1,09810—
1897#62724#8527
1896#70720—
1895#63823—
1894#95011—
1893#76715—
1892#72616—
1891#72714—
1890#1,0068#9945
1889#83910—
1888#79311—
1887#7889—
1886#8288—
1885#7938—
1884#9306—
1883#9205—
1882#6788—
1881#5829—
1880——
First appearance
1881

The first year at least five girls were named Elvie! It came in at #582, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1961–1962, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Elvie is popular in 1896

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Elvie
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 375 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #3,832)
  • 4,574 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #3,832)
  • 9,174 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #3,832)
  • Biggest jump: 469 spots in 1899 (#1,098 → #629)
  • Biggest drop: 471 spots in 1898 (#627 → #1,098)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1881
  • Peaked 1881 at #582 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1961, 80 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 44 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 44 yrs · run 1899–1922
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,802
  • Highest: 1 in 8,802 girls born in 1902 were named Elvie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 42,297 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #582 in 1881, was only 1 in 10,217 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 23.3% of all girls named Elvie (631) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2012
  • Mostly boys until 2011, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s74#582 (1881)#795
1890s165#627 (1897)#788
1900s258#600 (1902)#718
1910s591#721 (1913)#779
1920s631#784 (1921)#949
1930s342#1,102 (1939)#1,247
1940s204#1,472 (1941)#2,065
1950s120#2,436 (1950)#3,460
1960s48#4,202 (1965)#5,008
1970s20#6,558 (1972)#6,871
1980s7#8,128 (1981)#8,128
1990s0——
2000s0——
2010s75#7,230 (2016)#11,686
2020s169#3,832 (2025)#5,197

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.

Elvie in 1896

girls
#707
20 births · 1 in 11,896 girls

Top girls' names in 1896

  1. #1Mary13,811
  2. #2Anna5,860
  3. #3Helen4,392
  4. #4Margaret4,050
  5. #5Ruth3,905
  6. #6Ethel3,502
  7. #7Elizabeth3,471
  8. #8Florence3,323
  9. #9Marie3,087
  10. #10Emma2,872
  11. #707Elvie20
More about 1896

girls

237,918 girls got a published name in 1896; 1 in 11,896 of them was named Elvie, which outranked 61.3% of the 1,825 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Elvie
  1. #688Theodora21
  2. #688Veva21
  3. #688Vira21
  4. #707Elvie20
  5. #707Annis20
  6. #707Aurore20
  7. #707Crystal20
  8. #728Aletha19
  9. #728Buelah19
  10. #728Clora19

Tied with 20 names at #707; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1895
Risers
  1. ↑ 749Jeanie#1,592 → #843
  2. ↑ 698Vernice#1,426 → #728
  3. ↑ 689Buena#1,592 → #903
  4. ↑ 689Odell#1,592 → #903
  5. ↑ 642Albertina#1,592 → #950
Fallers
  1. ↓ 858Theodosia#725 → #1,583
  2. ↓ 794Dagmar#622 → #1,416
  3. ↓ 725Carl#858 → #1,583
  4. ↓ 691Palma#725 → #1,416
  5. ↓ 690Adline#893 → #1,583

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

See the top 100 for 1896 →