Elvy
Elvy was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,703 among girls’ names; 173 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elvy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elvy mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Elvy is “a female given name derived from Elvira”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elvy?
#13,703 among girls’ names, 2025
Elvy rose from #15,046 in 2015 to #13,703 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
14 babies in 1922, the peak
Elvy peaked in 1922, when 14 babies were given it (6 girls, #4,612 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,703 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,979 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,014 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,575 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,302 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,046 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,578 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,722 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,675 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,463 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 5 | #4,605 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 6 | #3,705 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 7 | #3,559 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,841 | |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,780 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,639 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,737 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,612 | 8 | #3,330 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,172 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,424 | 5 | #4,351 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,602 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,800 | 5 | #4,161 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,657 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,399 | |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,221 | 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 Elvy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 173 Americans recorded as Elvy, 67% are girls and 33% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Elvy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elvy, and how old are they?
An estimated 43 Americans named Elvy 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 356 people named Elvy (208 women and girls, 148 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13.2 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 43,982 babies since 1880, Elvy is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 126 babies (4.8%), the fifth 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 Elvy and names like it
- Compare Elvy and ElvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElvy peaked in 1922.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Elvy.
- Names starting with EMost given first.