Elle — #480 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Elle

The Social Security Administration has registered 18,574 babies named Elle between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elle currently holds the #480 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 890 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elle performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 8,104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Elle shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,451 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Elle in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elle 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 18,574 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.