Elza
Elza is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 343rd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192268 births
- Best rank
- #343in 1880
- Since 1880
- 2,934people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,111 boys have been named Elza in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 68 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 68 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Elza is used for both sexes: 28% of its bearers are girls (823), most of them born around 1921.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elza | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 184 | |
| 1890s | 149 | |
| 1900s | 119 | |
| 1910s | 385 | |
| 1920s | 523 | |
| 1930s | 326 | |
| 1940s | 192 | |
| 1950s | 125 | |
| 1960s | 63 | |
| 1970s | 27 | |
| 1980s | 12 | |
| 1990s | 6 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Elza was the 822nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Elza
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Columbuspeak 1922
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Clempeak 1917
- Gustavepeak 1915
- Generalpeak 1918
- Claudpeak 1919
- Guspeak 1921
- Harrypeak 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.