Elva
Elva is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 41 births. Its best rank was 161st, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 410.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918789 births
- Best rank
- #161in 1901
- Since 1880
- 32,471people given the name
The story in the numbers
31,654 girls have been named Elva in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 789 births.
The name has all but left use: 41 births in 2024, against 789 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 817 boys have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elva | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 903 | |
| 1890s | 1,900 | |
| 1900s | 2,677 | |
| 1910s | 6,052 | |
| 1920s | 6,314 | |
| 1930s | 3,794 | |
| 1940s | 2,698 | |
| 1950s | 2,282 | |
| 1960s | 1,508 | |
| 1970s | 988 | |
| 1980s | 754 | |
| 1990s | 652 | |
| 2000s | 471 | |
| 2010s | 461 | |
| 2020s | 200 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Elva was the 225th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Elva
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elmapeak 1918
- Delphiapeak 1924
- Oleviapeak 1921
- Ednapeak 1918
- Lethapeak 1918
- Claudiepeak 1918
- Essiepeak 1921
- Eulapeak 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.