Elvie
Elvie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 34 births. Its best rank was 592nd, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 340.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191792 births
- Best rank
- #592in 1881
- Since 1881
- 3,391people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,666 girls have been named Elvie in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 92 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Elvie is used for both sexes: 21% of its bearers are boys (725), most of them born around 1915.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elvie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 74 | |
| 1890s | 165 | |
| 1900s | 258 | |
| 1910s | 591 | |
| 1920s | 631 | |
| 1930s | 342 | |
| 1940s | 204 | |
| 1950s | 120 | |
| 1960s | 48 | |
| 1970s | 20 | |
| 1980s | 7 | |
| 2010s | 75 | |
| 2020s | 131 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Elvie was the 732nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Elvie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mablepeak 1922
- Elmapeak 1918
- Estellepeak 1915
- Eulapeak 1919
- Violapeak 1918
- Inezpeak 1920
- Elvapeak 1918
- Lethapeak 1918
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.