girls:
17.9k births since 1977
#1105 (81st percentile)
overall:
17.9k births since 1977
#1923 (75th percentile)
The name Elle is the #1,923 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,924 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 75.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,105 (80.7% percentile) for all time with 17,924 births since 1977.
Elle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (first recorded for girls in 1977). Birth data for Elle is available in 43 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, Elle reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 65.6% percentile (ranked #323) with 484 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 485 births per million (ranked 65.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1984, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elle ranks #403 for girls (57.5% percentile) with 398 births per million, which is 82.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elle".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Elle is pronounced as ehl, which has 1 syllables.
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