Elvi
Elvi was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,511 among girls’ names; 155 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elvi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elvi mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Elvi is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “Elvira” (Elviira).
Shortened from Elviira (“Elvira”).
/ˈelʋi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elvi?
#8,511 among girls’ names, 2025
Elvi entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,511 in 2025.
18 babies in 1917, the peak
Elvi peaked in 1917, when 18 girls were given it, #1,939 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,511 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,517 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,929 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,618 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 6 | #11,418 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #12,904 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #10,901 | |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,447 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,637 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,611 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 9 | #3,491 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,171 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,064 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,874 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,939 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,888 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,584 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,934 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Elvi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 155 Americans recorded as Elvi, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 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 Elvi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elvi, and how old are they?
An estimated 52 Americans named Elvi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 441 people named Elvi (207 women and girls, 234 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Elvi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 44,450 babies since 1880, Elvi is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 141 babies (8.5%), the fourth 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.
More about Elvi and names like it
- Compare Elvi and ElvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElvi peaked in 1917.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elvi since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Elvi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Elvi.
- Names starting with EMost given first.