Elvie
Elvie was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,850 among girls’ names; 3,429 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elvie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elvie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elvie is “a unisex given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elvie?
#3,850 among girls’ names, 2025
Elvie rose from #13,416 in 2015 to #3,850 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 23.6 per million.
115 babies in 1917, the peak
Elvie peaked in 1917, when 115 babies were given it (92 girls, #732 among girls’ names). The 38 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,850 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,230 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,387 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,230 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,246 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,548 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,463 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,772 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,127 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,354 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,416 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,134 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,585 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,655 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,274 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,377 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,122 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,726 | |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,698 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,750 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,799 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #3,969 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 12 | #2,582 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,116 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,009 | 7 | #3,322 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,284 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,225 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,341 | 8 | #3,132 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 8 | #3,180 | |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,887 | 7 | #3,441 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,018 | 5 | #4,166 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,274 | 10 | #2,694 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,536 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,547 | 6 | #3,649 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,866 | 6 | #3,623 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,792 | 7 | #3,245 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,723 | 5 | #3,972 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,429 | 10 | #2,573 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,556 | 8 | #2,907 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,465 | 8 | #2,845 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,888 | 7 | #3,098 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,085 | 10 | #2,497 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,941 | 7 | #3,171 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,511 | 12 | #2,186 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,763 | 10 | #2,294 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,122 | 14 | #1,912 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,603 | 13 | #2,100 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,717 | 17 | #1,755 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,480 | 6 | #3,247 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,758 | 8 | #2,728 |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,112 | 6 | #3,222 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,452 | 20 | #1,536 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,260 | 18 | #1,648 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,211 | 13 | #1,986 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,171 | 10 | #2,433 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,381 | 6 | #3,405 |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,165 | 18 | #1,665 |
| 1932 | 31 | #1,329 | 12 | #2,226 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,263 | 11 | #2,368 |
| 1930 | 39 | #1,201 | 16 | #1,913 |
| 1929 | 48 | #1,055 | 17 | #1,879 |
| 1928 | 59 | #971 | 16 | #1,990 |
| 1927 | 75 | #850 | 12 | #2,442 |
| 1926 | 61 | #959 | 10 | #2,780 |
| 1925 | 50 | #1,079 | 18 | #1,892 |
| 1924 | 68 | #921 | 23 | #1,640 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,132 | 18 | #1,892 |
| 1922 | 66 | #897 | 16 | #2,068 |
| 1921 | 87 | #784 | 17 | #2,004 |
| 1920 | 71 | #858 | 20 | #1,776 |
| 1919 | 83 | #775 | 19 | #1,767 |
| 1918 | 71 | #855 | 18 | #1,848 |
| 1917 | 92 | #732 | 23 | #1,495 |
| 1916 | 72 | #805 | 18 | #1,716 |
| 1915 | 61 | #832 | 25 | #1,350 |
| 1914 | 58 | #760 | 11 | #2,009 |
| 1913 | 52 | #724 | 13 | #1,520 |
| 1912 | 39 | #797 | 14 | #1,292 |
| 1911 | 34 | #743 | 10 | #1,136 |
| 1910 | 29 | #798 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 27 | #776 | 6 | #1,326 |
| 1908 | 31 | #702 | 5 | #1,441 |
| 1907 | 33 | #656 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 23 | #768 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 30 | #645 | 6 | #1,135 |
| 1904 | 22 | #756 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 21 | #742 | 9 | #809 |
| 1902 | 30 | #602 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 15 | #862 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 26 | #708 | 5 | #1,373 |
| 1899 | 24 | #633 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,123 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 24 | #632 | 7 | #875 |
| 1896 | 20 | #711 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 23 | #645 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 11 | #963 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 15 | #772 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 16 | #738 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 14 | #732 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,028 | 5 | #1,049 |
| 1889 | 10 | #860 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 11 | #807 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 9 | #809 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 8 | #854 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 8 | #807 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 6 | #958 | under 5 | |
| 1883 | 5 | #960 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 8 | #700 | under 5 | |
| 1881 | 9 | #592 | 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 Elvie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,429 Americans recorded as Elvie, 79% are girls and 21% boys. In 2025 it went to 38 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 Elvie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elvie, and how old are they?
An estimated 761 Americans named Elvie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 8 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,395 people named Elvie (1,126 women and girls, 269 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 810 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 Elvie born?
The states with the most babies named Elvie are Louisiana, Alabama and Texas, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 138 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Alabama | 118 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 112 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 73 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Mississippi | 60 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 51 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Arkansas | 42 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 11 | #3,238 | 0.1× |
Where Elvie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elvie is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 2.3 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 Elvie 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 44,450 babies since 1880, Elvie is the third most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 141 babies (27%), the second 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 Elvie
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 Elvie and names like it
- Compare Elvie and ElvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElvie peaked in 1917.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elvie since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Elvie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elvie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.