girls:
53 births since 1921
#5663 (1st percentile)
boys:
20.6k births since 1880
#804 (82nd percentile)
overall:
20.7k births since 1880
#1781 (77th percentile)
The name Elwood is the #1,781 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,685 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #804 (82.5% percentile) for all time with 20,632 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,663 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 1921.
Elwood has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls).
The name Elwood has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elwood reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 63.5% percentile (ranked #196) with 580 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 601 births per million (ranked 60.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elwood ranks #876 for boys (3.8% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 3.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elwood reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #598) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1933.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elwood".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Elwood. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Elwood is pronounced as EHL-wood, which has 2 syllables.
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