girls:
4.3k births since 1921
#2601 (54th percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1977
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1921
#4154 (46th percentile)
The name Elly is the #4,154 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,348 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 46.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,601 (54.5% percentile) for all time with 4,338 births since 1921. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1977.
Elly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Elly is available in 87 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (87 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Elly has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elly reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 19.7% percentile (ranked #758) with 97 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 97 births per million (ranked 19.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Elly ranks #839 for girls (11.4% percentile) with 65 births per million, which is 66.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Elly reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #674) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Elly is pronounced as EH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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