Elza — boys' name

What the Data Says About Elza

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,111 babies named Elza between 1880 and 1990, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elza currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1990. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 68 babies received it in a single year. Elza is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 823 additional births since 1883.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elza performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 523 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Elza shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 195 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Missouri and West Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Elza in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elza 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 2,111 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.