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)
The name Elvis is the #1,931 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,797 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 75.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #865 (81.1% percentile) for all time with 17,645 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,564 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 152 births since 1913.
Elvis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Elvis is available in 133 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (133 years for boys and 23 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 Elvis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elvis reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 55.1% percentile (ranked #296) with 276 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 276 births per million (ranked 55.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elvis ranks #764 for boys (16.2% percentile) with 83 births per million, which is 30.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elvis reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #760) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elvis".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Elvis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.7% confident that Elvis is pronounced as EHL-vihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-vees, at 23.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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