Elba
Elba is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 761st, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195682 births
- Best rank
- #761in 1891
- Since 1888
- 3,697people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,384 girls have been named Elba in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 82 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 16%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 313 boys have also been given it, 8.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elba | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1890s | 74 | |
| 1900s | 91 | |
| 1910s | 217 | |
| 1920s | 233 | |
| 1930s | 190 | |
| 1940s | 207 | |
| 1950s | 516 | |
| 1960s | 533 | |
| 1970s | 421 | |
| 1980s | 333 | |
| 1990s | 264 | |
| 2000s | 157 | |
| 2010s | 88 | |
| 2020s | 49 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Elba was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Elba
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Felicitapeak 1964
- Theressapeak 1961
- Corinnepeak 1978
- Ursulapeak 1967
- Cathrynpeak 1956
- Launapeak 2006
- Carmelitapeak 1973
- Raepeak 1956
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.