Elide
Elide was last recorded in 2000, when 6 babies were given it; 119 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elide by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elide mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Elide is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elide?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,667, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 1994, the peak
Elide peaked in 1994, when 73 girls were given it, #1,931 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #13,667 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,112 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,184 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,156 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,274 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,931 | 40.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,136 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elide a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elide has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 7 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elide: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elide, and how old are they?
An estimated 117 Americans named Elide and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 31 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 428 people named Elide (406 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 117 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,912 babies since 1880, Elide is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,131 babies recorded by SSA was a Elide (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Elide
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 Elide and names like it
- Compare Elide and EldaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sElide peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elide since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Elide: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Elide.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Elide alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.