Elfie
Elfie was last recorded in 1928, when 5 babies were given it; 316 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1928 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elfie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elfie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,919, in 1928; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1914, the peak
Elfie peaked in 1914, when 17 girls were given it, #1,617 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 5 | #4,919 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,440 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,985 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,184 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,295 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,191 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,210 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,631 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,630 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,553 | 11.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 9 | #3,320 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,942 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,406 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,429 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,617 | 22.3 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,387 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,102 | 9.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,304 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,921 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,425 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,797 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,333 | 30.9 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,870 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,153 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,159 | 37.6 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,127 | 40.0 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,561 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,294 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,329 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,665 | 21.4 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,035 | 42.3 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,516 | 23.5 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,245 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,250 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,179 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 11 | #805 | 61.6 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,152 | 34.6 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,069 | 38.8 |
| 1883 | 6 | #849 | 53.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elfie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elfie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elfie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elfie, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Elfie was born before 1900, so the estimate of Americans with the name alive today rounds to none. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 180 people named Elfie (170 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 392 babies since 1880, Elfie is the most given (81% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elfie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elfie and names like it
- Compare Elfie and ElfaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElfie peaked in 1914.
- The top names of 1914The year the most babies were named Elfie.
- Names starting with EMost given first.