Elky
Elky was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,211 among girls’ names; 215 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elky by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elky?
#11,211 among girls’ names, 2025
Elky fell from #10,347 in 2015 to #11,211 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 5.0 per million.
16 babies in 2022, the peak
Elky peaked in 2022, when 16 girls were given it, #7,062 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,211 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,968 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,486 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,062 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,155 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,516 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,230 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,719 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,943 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,863 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,347 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,122 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,277 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,560 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,970 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,810 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,337 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,348 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,415 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,135 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,397 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,208 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,072 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,032 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,117 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,414 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,853 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,243 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,884 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elky a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elky has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elky: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elky, and how old are they?
An estimated 213 Americans named Elky and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 248 people named Elky (234 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
Where are babies named Elky born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 8.6× |
Where Elky is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elky is most over-represented in New York: since 1984 it was given 8.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elky with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,475 babies since 1880, Elky is the fourth most given (8.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 32 babies (25%), the third most given that year.
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 Elky
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 Elky and names like it
- Compare Elky and ElkeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElky peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elky since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Elky.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elky alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.