girls:
373 births since 1991
#5343 (6th percentile)
boys:
2.9k births since 1880
#2316 (49th percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1880
#4740 (39th percentile)
The name Elie is the #4,740 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,319 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 38.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,316 (49.5% percentile) for all time with 2,946 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,343 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 373 births since 1991.
Elie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1991 for girls). Birth data for Elie is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 26 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 Elie has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 71.7% of babies named Elie were boys.
For boys, Elie reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #850) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 118 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elie ranks #878 for boys (3.6% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 17.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elie reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #941) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elie ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 69.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Elie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 32 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Eli" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Eli..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Elie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.4% confident that Elie is pronounced as EH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-lai, at 19.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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