Elwood
Elwood is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 69 births. Its best rank was 204th, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 690.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1921613 births
- Best rank
- #204in 1915
- Since 1880
- 20,702people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,702 boys have been named Elwood in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 613 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 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elwood | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 274 | |
| 1890s | 356 | |
| 1900s | 504 | |
| 1910s | 3,908 | |
| 1920s | 5,494 | |
| 1930s | 3,553 | |
| 1940s | 2,593 | |
| 1950s | 1,642 | |
| 1960s | 879 | |
| 1970s | 421 | |
| 1980s | 233 | |
| 1990s | 146 | |
| 2000s | 115 | |
| 2010s | 339 | |
| 2020s | 245 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Elwood was the 215th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Elwood
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Wilburpeak 1918
- Willardpeak 1915
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Elwinpeak 1923
- Miltonpeak 1920
- Francispeak 1918
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.