Elgin
Elgin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 639th, in 1890.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192069 births
- Best rank
- #639in 1890
- Since 1886
- 3,952people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,952 boys have been named Elgin in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 69 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elgin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | |
| 1890s | 29 | |
| 1900s | 56 | |
| 1910s | 375 | |
| 1920s | 532 | |
| 1930s | 324 | |
| 1940s | 309 | |
| 1950s | 312 | |
| 1960s | 481 | |
| 1970s | 425 | |
| 1980s | 321 | |
| 1990s | 242 | |
| 2000s | 265 | |
| 2010s | 205 | |
| 2020s | 64 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Elgin was the 806th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Elgin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Theronpeak 1966
- Lovellpeak 1916
- Mauricepeak 1921
- Coypeak 1926
- Russelpeak 1920
- Thurstonpeak 1918
- Cliftonpeak 1975
- Everettepeak 1919
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.