girls:
49 births since 1914
#5667 (1st percentile)
boys:
299 births since 1900
#4287 (6th percentile)
overall:
348 births since 1900
#7391 (4th percentile)
The name Elver is the #7,391 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 348 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 4.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,287 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 299 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #5,667 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 1914.
Elver first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for boys and 1914 for girls). Birth data for Elver is available in 42 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (38 years for boys and 8 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 Elver has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Elver were boys.
For boys, Elver reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #538) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 31 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elver ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 21.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elver reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #600) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1955.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elver".
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