girls:
43 births since 1915
#5673 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.9k births since 1886
#1966 (57th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1886
#4354 (44th percentile)
The name Elgin is the #4,354 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,984 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 43.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,966 (57.1% percentile) for all time with 3,941 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 1915.
Elgin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Elgin is available in 127 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (127 years for boys and 7 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 Elgin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elgin reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 12.0% percentile (ranked #471) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 84 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Despite a low point around 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Elgin ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 7.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elgin reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #599) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1932.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elgin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Elgin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.4% confident that Elgin is pronounced as EHL-gihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-jihn, at 36.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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