girls:
1.3k births since 1977
#4410 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1977
#6429 (17th percentile)
The name Elif is the #6,429 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,314 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 16.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,410 (22.8% percentile) for all time with 1,314 births since 1977.
Elif first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (first recorded for girls in 1977). Birth data for Elif is available in 42 out of the 47 years between 1977 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Elif reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 10.6% percentile (ranked #857) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 59 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elif ranks #865 for girls (8.7% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 84.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elif".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Elif. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Elif is pronounced as EH-lihf, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-LIHF, at 13.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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