Elzie
Elzie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 352nd, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1917109 births
- Best rank
- #352in 1891
- Since 1880
- 4,516people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,859 boys have been named Elzie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 109 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 109 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 65 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 657 girls have also been given it, 15% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elzie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 125 | |
| 1890s | 167 | |
| 1900s | 204 | |
| 1910s | 729 | |
| 1920s | 882 | |
| 1930s | 552 | |
| 1940s | 426 | |
| 1950s | 330 | |
| 1960s | 190 | |
| 1970s | 108 | |
| 1980s | 70 | |
| 1990s | 18 | |
| 2000s | 26 | |
| 2010s | 21 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Elzie was the 565th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Elzie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Homerpeak 1920
- Clarencepeak 1921
- Websterpeak 1915
- Elmerpeak 1918
- Juniuspeak 1920
- Earlepeak 1918
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Horacepeak 1921
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.