Elga — unisex name

What the Data Says About Elga

The Social Security Administration has registered 120 babies named Elga between 1914 and 1982, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elga currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1982. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Elga is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elga performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 57 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Elga shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Elga in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elga 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 120 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.