Elvis
Elvis was given to 145 boys in 2025, #1,328 among boys’ names; 18,123 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,300 Americans named Elvis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 19 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elvis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elvis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elvis is “a male given name.”
From the anglicisation of the Irish name of Saint Ailbe (Saint Elvis), also known as Saint Eilfyw or Eilfw. Ultimate origin is uncertain.
/ˈɛlvɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elvis?
#1,328 among boys’ names, 2025
Elvis fell from #1,083 in 2015 to #1,328 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 94.4 to 84.9 per million.
618 babies in 1957, the peak
Elvis peaked in 1957, when 618 babies were given it (605 boys, #311 among boys’ names). The 145 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 145 | #1,328 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 179 | #1,165 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 153 | #1,261 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,273 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 122 | #1,473 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,337 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 168 | #1,159 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,210 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 152 | #1,208 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 188 | #1,051 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (135)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 181 | #1,083 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 187 | #1,059 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 185 | #1,040 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 184 | #1,044 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 224 | #904 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 193 | #1,013 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 249 | #856 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 325 | #715 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 355 | #674 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 273 | #766 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 247 | #787 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 280 | #696 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 275 | #694 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 315 | #627 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 278 | #658 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 333 | #593 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 361 | #555 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 237 | #703 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 214 | #724 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 188 | #775 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 220 | #715 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 185 | #778 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 252 | #647 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 190 | #748 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 193 | #728 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 200 | #717 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 243 | #639 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 183 | #692 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 211 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 161 | #715 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 201 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 154 | #704 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 182 | #635 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 171 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 208 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 229 | #571 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 275 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 365 | #404 | 0.22 |
| 1977 | 299 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 148 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 110 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 145 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 157 | #634 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 119 | #729 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 130 | #724 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 131 | #719 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 148 | #649 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 139 | #643 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 167 | #585 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 118 | #682 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 157 | #610 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 130 | #677 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 137 | #668 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 168 | #598 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 190 | #573 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 242 | #510 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 265 | #480 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 374 | #404 | 0.18 |
| 1957 | 605 | #311 | 0.28 |
| 1956 | 417 | #361 | 0.20 |
| 1955 | 65 | #922 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,103 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,291 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 54 | #972 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,073 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 65 | #844 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 50 | #986 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,112 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 66 | #853 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 55 | #892 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 49 | #919 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 56 | #846 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 60 | #860 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 55 | #893 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 54 | #860 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 77 | #690 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 69 | #719 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 54 | #848 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 49 | #883 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 59 | #800 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 49 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 74 | #711 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 56 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 56 | #856 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 62 | #796 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 79 | #700 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 81 | #686 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 95 | #639 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 64 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 89 | #672 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 75 | #761 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 64 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 103 | #633 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 106 | #626 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 85 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 74 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 106 | #584 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 92 | #643 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 69 | #753 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 61 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 66 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 48 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 29 | #917 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 43 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 15 | #870 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 18 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 12 | #858 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,044 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 10 | #888 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 9 | #871 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 12 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 8 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 12 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1901 | 7 | #884 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 8 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 11 | #630 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 9 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 8 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 7 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 7 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 5 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 7 | #788 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 8 | #667 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elvis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elvis has been given almost only to boys: 152 girls in 135 years of records.
Girls and boys named Elvis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elvis, and how old are they?
14,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 18,123 Americans ever recorded as Elvis. The median Elvis alive today is 33 years old; half are between 19 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 18,506 people named Elvis (339 women and girls, 18,167 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,029 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 211 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,170 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,090 |
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 Elvis born?
The states with the most babies named Elvis are California, New York and Texas, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,415 | #868 | 1.3× |
| New York | 2,314 | #1,151 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 1,897 | #1,143 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 711 | #1,522 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 609 | #1,075 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 561 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 482 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 482 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Arkansas | 409 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Kentucky | 380 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Elvis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elvis is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 boys’ 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 Elvis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elvis
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 Elvis and names like it
- Compare Elvis and FedericoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sElvis peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elvis since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Elvis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elvis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.