girls:
3.4k births since 1888
#2982 (48th percentile)
boys:
313 births since 1892
#4273 (7th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1888
#4517 (42nd percentile)
The name Elba is the #4,517 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,687 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 41.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,982 (47.8% percentile) for all time with 3,374 births since 1888. For boys, it ranks #4,273 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 313 births since 1892.
Elba first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for girls and 1892 for boys). Birth data for Elba is available in 135 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (135 years for girls and 36 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Elba has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elba reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 10.3% percentile (ranked #670) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 66 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elba ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 9.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Elba reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #533) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 39 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1972.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elba".
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