Elke

girls:

1.1k births since 1953

#4626 (19th percentile)

overall:

1.1k births since 1953

#6649 (14th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elke".

1953 2021 19532021

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,090
Peak Births
76
Peak Year
1968
First Recorded
1953
Peak Percentile
9.5%
Current Percentile
0.4%
Peak Rank
#676
Current Rank
#932
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Elke

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Elke. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 39.0% confident that Elke is pronounced as EHL-kuh. The next most likely pronunciation is ehlk, at 34.1% confidence.

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39.0%
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34.1%
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26.8%
EHL-kuh (2 syllables)
39.0% confidence
EH1 L K AH0
ehlk (1 syllable)
34.1% confidence
EH1 L K
EHL-kee (2 syllables)
26.8% confidence
EH1 L K IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Elke. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Elke, please vote using the thumbs up button.

EH-lih-kuh (3 syllables)
3 names 484 births
EH1 L IH0 K AH0
EH-lihk (2 syllables)
5 names 413 births
EH1 L IH0 K

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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.

The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 L K AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

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.