Elgie
Elgie was last recorded in 1984, when 6 babies were given it; 1,343 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elgie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elgie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,795, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1918, the peak
Elgie peaked in 1918, when 44 babies were given it (32 boys, #1,238 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,795 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,189 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,340 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,601 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,921 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 8 | #3,399 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,130 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 12 | #2,369 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 10 | #2,715 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,230 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | under 5 | 9 | #2,955 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,772 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 6 | #3,719 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 8 | #3,108 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 12 | #2,415 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 14 | #2,195 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 10 | #2,634 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 11 | #2,499 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 8 | #2,979 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 10 | #2,570 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 9 | #2,721 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 10 | #2,476 | |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,838 | 15 | #1,966 |
| 1948 | under 5 | 8 | #2,845 | |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,794 | 8 | #2,937 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,153 | 11 | #2,313 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,741 | 11 | #2,161 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,195 | 8 | #2,695 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,586 | 15 | #1,936 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,252 | 12 | #2,184 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,091 | 11 | #2,241 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,612 | 15 | #1,829 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,635 | 7 | #2,915 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,784 | 11 | #2,228 |
| 1937 | under 5 | 13 | #2,021 | |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,929 | 16 | #1,746 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,233 | 18 | #1,675 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,608 | 19 | #1,625 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,852 | 17 | #1,726 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,056 | 15 | #1,941 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,624 | 17 | #1,792 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,227 | 12 | #2,336 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,474 | 14 | #2,122 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,116 | 19 | #1,781 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,903 | 11 | #2,570 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,095 | 20 | #1,745 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,828 | 25 | #1,505 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,567 | 20 | #1,794 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,775 | 22 | #1,655 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,754 | 22 | #1,666 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,411 | 21 | #1,726 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,404 | 16 | #2,069 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,096 | 21 | #1,647 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,716 | 32 | #1,238 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,603 | 14 | #2,114 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,282 | 20 | #1,609 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,164 | 18 | #1,677 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,716 | 15 | #1,630 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,615 | 14 | #1,463 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,449 | 9 | #1,780 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,023 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,645 | 5 | #1,517 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,542 | 7 | #1,126 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,605 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,255 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,388 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,481 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,488 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 5 | #1,097 | |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,012 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,308 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,778 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,105 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,464 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,475 | 5 | #1,126 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,210 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,517 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,032 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 5 | #1,047 | |
| 1889 | 8 | #969 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 7 | #843 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 5 | #1,012 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Elgie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,343 Americans recorded as Elgie, 39% are girls and 61% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Elgie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elgie, and how old are they?
An estimated 260 Americans named Elgie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 65 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 380 people named Elgie (152 women and girls, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 365 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,419 babies since 1880, Elgie is the second most given (39% 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 Elgie
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 Elgie and names like it
- Compare Elgie and EligioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElgie peaked in 1918.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elgie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Elgie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elgie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.