Elka — #6665 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Elka

The Social Security Administration has registered 715 babies named Elka between 1943 and 2024, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elka currently holds the #6665 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 21 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elka performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 161 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Elka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 186 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Elka in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elka 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 715 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.