Elaine
Elaine is ranked 369th among girls in 2024 (843 births). Its best rank was 42nd, in 1938.
- Rank in 2024
- #369up 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8430.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 19477,058 births
- Best rank
- #42in 1938
- Since 1880
- 261,872people given the name
The story in the numbers
261,872 girls have been named Elaine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 7,058 births — 0.40% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 650 → 369).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1940s alone account for 23%. It has spent 138 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 36 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elaine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 41 | |
| 1890s | 239 | |
| 1900s | 783 | |
| 1910s | 8,576 | |
| 1920s | 34,907 | |
| 1930s | 41,108 | |
| 1940s | 60,104 | |
| 1950s | 54,232 | |
| 1960s | 27,463 | |
| 1970s | 9,782 | |
| 1980s | 7,113 | |
| 1990s | 5,440 | |
| 2000s | 4,138 | |
| 2010s | 4,384 | |
| 2020s | 3,562 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Elaine was the 50th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Elaine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carylpeak 1947
- Raymapeak 1947
- Phylisspeak 1951
- Thomasinepeak 1950
- Rosemarypeak 1947
- Charleanpeak 1952
- Georgenepeak 1947
- Gloriapeak 1947
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.