Elvis

girls:

152 births since 1913

#5564 (3rd percentile)

boys:

17.6k births since 1881

#865 (81st percentile)

overall:

17.8k births since 1881

#1931 (75th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elvis".

1881 2023 18812023

Key Statistics

Total Births
152
Peak Births
13
Peak Year
1957
First Recorded
1913
Peak Percentile
1.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#480
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
17,645
Peak Births
605
Peak Year
1957
First Recorded
1881
Peak Percentile
55.1%
Current Percentile
16.2%
Peak Rank
#183
Current Rank
#764
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Elvis

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Elvis. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 76.7% confident that Elvis is pronounced as EHL-vihs. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-vees, at 23.3% confidence.

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76.7%
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EHL-vihs (2 syllables)
Verified
76.7% confidence
EH1 L V IH0 S
EHL-vees (2 syllables)
23.3% confidence
EH1 L V IY0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Elvis. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Elvis, please vote using the thumbs up button.

AL-vihs (2 syllables)
1 name 5.5k births
AE1 L V IH0 S

Names with this pronunciation:

EH-vuh-lees (3 syllables)
7 names 651 births
EH1 V AH0 L IY0 S

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 L V IH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.