Elvie — #4187 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Elvie

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,666 babies named Elvie between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elvie currently holds the #4187 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 92 babies received it in a single year. Elvie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 725 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elvie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 631 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Elvie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 138 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Elvie in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elvie 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 2,666 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.