Elly — #1729 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Elly

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,456 babies named Elly between 1921 and 2024, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elly currently holds the #1729 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 191 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elly performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,607 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Elly shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 493 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Elly in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elly 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 4,456 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.