girls:
7.6k births since 1888
#1865 (67th percentile)
boys:
31 births since 1921
#4555 (1st percentile)
overall:
7.6k births since 1888
#3087 (60th percentile)
The name Elvia is the #3,087 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,639 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 60.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,865 (67.4% percentile) for all time with 7,608 births since 1888. For boys, it ranks #4,555 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1921.
Elvia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for girls and 1921 for boys). Birth data for Elvia is available in 133 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (133 years for girls and 6 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 Elvia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elvia reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 17.9% percentile (ranked #657) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 81 births per million (ranked 16.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elvia ranks #909 for girls (4.0% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 30.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Elvia reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #549) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elvia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Elvia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.4% confident that Elvia is pronounced as EHL-vee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ehl-VEE-uh, at 14.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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