Elli
Elli was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,966 among girls’ names; 2,798 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,760 Americans named Elli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elli mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Elli is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the senses “Helen” (Elina) and “Eleanor” (Eleonoora).
Diminutive of Elina (“Helen”), later also Eleonoora (“Eleanor”) and likely of Elisabet.
/ˈelːi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elli?
#2,966 among girls’ names, 2025
Elli fell from #2,042 in 2015 to #2,966 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.8 to 34.8 per million.
121 babies in 2014, the peak
Elli peaked in 2014, when 121 girls were given it, #1,732 among girls’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,966 | 34.8 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,946 | 34.6 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,565 | 43.0 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,870 | 36.0 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,687 | 39.0 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,448 | 43.9 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,439 | 43.5 |
| 2018 | 83 | #2,226 | 48.8 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,554 | 40.0 |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,057 | 54.2 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #2,042 | 53.8 |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,732 | 67.7 |
| 2013 | 94 | #2,053 | 53.6 |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,839 | 62.5 |
| 2011 | 93 | #2,074 | 52.9 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,824 | 63.0 |
| 2009 | 103 | #2,006 | 56.1 |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,013 | 55.0 |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,354 | 42.1 |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,054 | 50.5 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,092 | 48.2 |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,760 | 59.4 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,952 | 50.9 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,869 | 52.9 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,665 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,712 | 29.7 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,645 | 29.9 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,767 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,988 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,861 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,105 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,722 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,487 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,271 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,536 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,916 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,358 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,782 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,940 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,526 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,121 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,587 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,290 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,005 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,044 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,948 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,855 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,486 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,789 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,649 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,805 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,868 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,546 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,895 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,329 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,795 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,461 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,077 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,421 | 4.1 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,635 | 4.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,525 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,361 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,222 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,376 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,798 Americans recorded as Elli, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 56 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Elli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elli, and how old are they?
2,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,798 Americans ever recorded as Elli. The median Elli alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,262 people named Elli (3,012 women and girls, 250 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Elli rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 281 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,020 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Elli born?
The states with the most babies named Elli are Texas, California and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,038 | 0.6× |
| California | 5 | #3,235 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,256 | 0.3× |
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 Elli 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 546,207 babies since 1880, Elli is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 13,304 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Elli
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 Elli and names like it
- Compare Elli and EllaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sElli peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elli since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Elli: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Elli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.