Elzie
Elzie was last recorded in 2025, when 15 babies were given it; 4,531 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elzie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elzie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,231, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
129 babies in 1917, the peak
Elzie peaked in 1917, when 129 babies were given it (109 boys, #565 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,234 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,983 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,167 | 6 | #11,231 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,067 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,519 | 5 | #12,688 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,528 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,846 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,328 | 9 | #8,351 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,321 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,049 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | under 5 | 6 | #11,243 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #11,157 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #11,964 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 8 | #8,359 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #9,951 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #8,463 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #9,713 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,246 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 8 | #6,002 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 8 | #5,798 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #5,957 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,042 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 11 | #3,872 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 9 | #4,300 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 8 | #4,724 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #3,931 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 12 | #3,477 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,344 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,686 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 10 | #3,682 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 8 | #4,123 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 16 | #2,563 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 13 | #2,850 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 12 | #2,900 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,603 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 10 | #3,210 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 21 | #1,954 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 17 | #2,071 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 16 | #2,052 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 21 | #1,723 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 16 | #1,986 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 13 | #2,298 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 20 | #1,810 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 21 | #1,752 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 20 | #1,826 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 21 | #1,789 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 25 | #1,630 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 17 | #1,995 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 35 | #1,309 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,048 | 34 | #1,349 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 25 | #1,577 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 29 | #1,430 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 35 | #1,278 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 39 | #1,195 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 35 | #1,252 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 36 | #1,223 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 45 | #1,052 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 34 | #1,232 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 38 | #1,164 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 34 | #1,260 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 46 | #1,006 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 41 | #1,000 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 48 | #920 | |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,314 | 44 | #1,009 |
| 1942 | under 5 | 46 | #988 | |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,096 | 43 | #977 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,296 | 52 | #877 |
| 1939 | under 5 | 49 | #894 | |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,263 | 47 | #922 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,550 | 43 | #960 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,828 | 53 | #838 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 65 | #769 | |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,954 | 44 | #959 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,951 | 60 | #789 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,277 | 52 | #896 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,833 | 63 | #791 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,748 | 76 | #722 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,625 | 72 | #746 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,217 | 89 | #666 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,644 | 88 | #693 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,189 | 90 | #666 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,313 | 81 | #718 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,165 | 83 | #726 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,112 | 85 | #702 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,976 | 93 | #667 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,317 | 100 | #643 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,413 | 101 | #628 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,614 | 94 | #626 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,710 | 99 | #618 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,794 | 109 | #565 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,972 | 94 | #600 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,586 | 89 | #611 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,501 | 81 | #548 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,546 | 57 | #582 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,374 | 43 | #639 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,260 | 33 | #515 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,084 | 30 | #514 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,823 | 20 | #598 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,286 | 27 | #478 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,234 | 18 | #598 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,461 | 24 | #457 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,257 | 19 | #534 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,065 | 13 | #655 |
| 1903 | under 5 | 22 | #437 | |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,356 | 23 | #428 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,085 | 18 | #457 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,788 | 20 | #538 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,464 | 13 | #560 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,412 | 12 | #644 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,626 | 15 | #524 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,655 | 14 | #562 |
| 1895 | under 5 | 10 | #708 | |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,400 | 22 | #401 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,494 | 19 | #420 |
| 1892 | under 5 | 16 | #501 | |
| 1891 | 9 | #959 | 24 | #352 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,029 | 22 | #378 |
| 1889 | under 5 | 8 | #738 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 16 | #489 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 13 | #498 | |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,156 | 14 | #496 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,089 | 17 | #445 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,074 | 16 | #474 |
| 1883 | under 5 | 12 | #536 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 9 | #667 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 7 | #730 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 13 | #509 |
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 Elzie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,531 Americans recorded as Elzie, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 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 Elzie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elzie, and how old are they?
An estimated 973 Americans named Elzie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 49 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,013 people named Elzie (148 women and girls, 865 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Elzie born?
The states with the most babies named Elzie are Kentucky, Texas and Georgia, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 341 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Texas | 333 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 233 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Oklahoma | 128 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Alabama | 101 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Mississippi | 93 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 81 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arkansas | 75 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 63 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 52 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Elzie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elzie is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 3.6 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 Elzie 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,039 babies since 1880, Elzie is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 23 babies (65%), again the most given.
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 Elzie
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 Elzie and names like it
- Compare Elzie and ElzaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElzie peaked in 1917.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elzie since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Elzie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elzie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.