girls:
1.8k births since 1885
#4020 (30th percentile)
boys:
129.2k births since 1880
#253 (95th percentile)
overall:
131k births since 1880
#571 (93rd percentile)
The name Elmer is the #571 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 130,982 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #253 (94.5% percentile) for all time with 129,229 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,020 (29.7% percentile) for all time with 1,753 births since 1885.
Elmer has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1885 for girls).
The name Elmer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elmer reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 91.9% percentile (ranked #44) with 3,922 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 4,817 births per million (ranked 85.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elmer ranks #777 for boys (14.7% percentile) with 76 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elmer reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 10.2% percentile (ranked #544) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 76 births per million (ranked 5.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elmer".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Elmer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Elmer is pronounced as EHL-mer, which has 2 syllables.
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