Girls' name · since 1918

Elice

247 babies named Elice in U.S. Social Security records since 1918, with the highest year being 1954. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#17,703 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#15,080 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
247
born since 1918
1980s
peak decade

Elice currently ranks #15080 among girls' names in America, with 247 babies recorded since 1918.

Social Security Administration records show Elice recorded 247 times among girls since 1918, holding rank #15080 nationally today, ahead of 13% of girls, peaking in the 1980s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1918 to 2025.

  • #17,703 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #15,080 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 247 born since 1918
  • 1980s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elice ranks #17,703 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,080 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 247 born since 1918, peaking in the 1980s.

#17,703 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#15,080 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
247
born since 1918
1980s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%12.8%
Elice vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Above the archive median
All-time archive position

Elice's 247 recorded births place it above 75.48% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Elice compares

247 41st percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Elice's all-time total is 34% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Elice Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 247 376 567,345
Peak-year births 10 21 19,840

Elice's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Elice's SSA record in two at 1981 and the more recent half accounts for 52% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 48%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1919, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1954 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Elice popularity over time - girls

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1918–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (1954)
10
Annual births at peak, across 108 years of records
4681012 191819401953196219831990200220122025 5

Elice popularity over time - boys

7 total births recorded since 1930 (Elice as boys' name)

Unisex variant - 7 births
7 1930 7

Elice by decade

1980s is the heaviest window (38 births, 15% of the file).

1980s was Elice's strongest decade.

38 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 15% of all-time use.

Elice births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 1980s at 38 births (15% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Elice?
Elice has been given to 247 babies in the U.S. since 1918, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #17,703 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #15,080 of 17,297. 10 babies were born in 1954, its single highest year.
Where does Elice sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elice ranks #17,703 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,080 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Elice most popular?
Elice was most popular in the 1980s decade with 38 total births. The single peak year was 1954.
How long has the name Elice been used?
Records for Elice go back to 1918, giving 108 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Elice?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Elizabeth, Eliana, Elise, Eliza, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

What to do with Elice's data

  • Elice's decade-level peak was the 1980s (38 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.

Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.

Keep exploring Elice

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Elice: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1918–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Elice draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.