girls:
393 births since 1904
#5323 (7th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1923
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
398 births since 1904
#7341 (5th percentile)
The name Elner is the #7,341 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 398 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,323 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 393 births since 1904. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1923.
Elner first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for girls and 1923 for boys). Birth data for Elner is available in 36 out of the 47 years between 1904 and 1950 (36 years for girls and 1 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 Elner has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elner reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #593) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 18 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1950.
For boys, Elner reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #551) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elner".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Elner is pronounced as EHL-ner, which has 2 syllables.
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