Elba — #9541 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Elba

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,384 babies named Elba between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elba currently holds the #9541 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 82 babies received it in a single year. Elba is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 313 additional births since 1892.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elba performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 533 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Elba shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 922 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Elba in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elba in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,384 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.