girls:
97 births since 1919
#5619 (2nd percentile)
boys:
33.5k births since 1880
#619 (87th percentile)
overall:
33.6k births since 1880
#1376 (82nd percentile)
The name Elbert is the #1,376 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33,587 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #619 (86.5% percentile) for all time with 33,490 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,619 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 97 births since 1919.
Elbert has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1919 for girls). Birth data for Elbert is available in 143 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (143 years for boys and 14 years for girls). 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 Elbert has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elbert reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 68.7% percentile (ranked #168) with 724 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 944 births per million (ranked 48.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Elbert reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #588) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1972.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elbert".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Elbert. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Elbert is pronounced as EHL-bert, which has 2 syllables.
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