girls:
529 births since 1889
#5187 (9th percentile)
boys:
814 births since 1884
#3773 (18th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1884
#6400 (17th percentile)
The name Elgie is the #6,400 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,343 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 17.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,773 (17.7% percentile) for all time with 814 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,187 (9.2% percentile) for all time with 529 births since 1889.
Elgie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1889 for girls). Birth data for Elgie is available in 82 out of the 101 years between 1884 and 1984 (67 years for boys and 54 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 Elgie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (60.6% of all recorded births). In 1984, 100.0% of babies named Elgie were boys.
For boys, Elgie reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #504) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 54 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1984.
For girls, Elgie reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #587) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 42 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1949.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elgie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Elgie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Elgie is pronounced as EHL-jee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-gee, at 10.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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