Elgia — unisex name

What the Data Says About Elgia

The Social Security Administration has registered 23 babies named Elgia between 1906 and 1936, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elgia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1936. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Elgia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elgia performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 13 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Elgia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elgia 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 23 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.