girls:
2.6k births since 1881
#3370 (41st percentile)
boys:
725 births since 1890
#3862 (16th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1881
#4718 (39th percentile)
The name Elvie is the #4,718 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,357 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 39.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,370 (41.0% percentile) for all time with 2,632 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #3,862 (15.7% percentile) for all time with 725 births since 1890.
Elvie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1890 for boys). Birth data for Elvie is available in 107 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (101 years for girls and 64 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 Elvie has been given predominantly to girls, with 78.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Elvie were girls.
For girls, Elvie reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 14.9% percentile (ranked #491) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 107 births per million (ranked 7.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elvie ranks #920 for girls (2.9% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 17.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Elvie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #483) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 70 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elvie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Elvie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.5% confident that Elvie is pronounced as EHL-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ehl-VEE, at 9.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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