girls:
104 births since 1910
#5612 (2nd percentile)
boys:
57 births since 1914
#4529 (1st percentile)
overall:
161 births since 1910
#7578 (2nd percentile)
The name Elvy is the #7,578 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 161 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,612 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 104 births since 1910. For boys, it ranks #4,529 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 57 births since 1914.
Elvy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Elvy is available in 23 out of the 113 years between 1910 and 2022 (16 years for girls and 10 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 Elvy has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (64.6% of all recorded births). In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Elvy were girls.
For girls, Elvy reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #603) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 14 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Elvy reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #543) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1944.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elvy".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Elvy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Elvy is pronounced as EHL-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ehl-VEE, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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