girls:
808 births since 1883
#4908 (14th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1880
#2738 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1880
#5016 (35th percentile)
The name Elza is the #5,016 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,919 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 35.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,738 (40.3% percentile) for all time with 2,111 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,908 (14.1% percentile) for all time with 808 births since 1883.
Elza has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1883 for girls). Birth data for Elza is available in 123 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (95 years for boys and 81 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 Elza has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Elza were boys. Interestingly, until around 1977, the name was more popular for boys (80.0% boys from 1880 to 1976), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (94.1% girls from 1977 to 2023).
For boys, Elza reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #483) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 211 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
For girls, Elza reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #588) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elza ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 19.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elza".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Elza is pronounced as EHL-zuh, which has 2 syllables.
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