girls:
20 births since 1918
#5696 (0th percentile)
boys:
287 births since 1913
#4299 (6th percentile)
overall:
307 births since 1913
#7432 (4th percentile)
The name Elmar is the #7,432 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 307 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,299 (6.2% percentile) for all time with 287 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,696 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 1918.
Elmar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Elmar is available in 35 out of the 103 years between 1913 and 2015 (35 years for boys and 4 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 Elmar has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elmar reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #541) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 14 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
For girls, Elmar reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #592) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elmar".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Elmar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Elmar is pronounced as EHL-mahr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-muhr, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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