Elgie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Elgie

The Social Security Administration has registered 814 babies named Elgie between 1884 and 1984, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elgie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1984. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Elgie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 529 additional births since 1889.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elgie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 190 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Elgie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Elgie in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elgie 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 814 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.