girls:
651 births since 1884
#5065 (11th percentile)
boys:
3.9k births since 1880
#1993 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.5k births since 1880
#4067 (47th percentile)
The name Elzie is the #4,067 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,510 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 47.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,993 (56.5% percentile) for all time with 3,859 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,065 (11.4% percentile) for all time with 651 births since 1884.
Elzie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1884 for girls). Birth data for Elzie is available in 125 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (120 years for boys and 60 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 Elzie has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 35.3% of babies named Elzie were boys. Interestingly, until around 2016, the name was more popular for boys (86.7% boys from 1880 to 2015), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (75.9% girls from 2016 to 2023).
For boys, Elzie reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 20.2% percentile (ranked #413) with 114 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 220 births per million (ranked 9.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Elzie ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elzie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #574) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 46 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elzie ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 13.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elzie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Elzie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Elzie is pronounced as EHL-zee, which has 2 syllables.
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