Elgie

boys’ name · 61%girls’ name · 39%FadedCompare

Elgie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 843rd, in 1888.

Rank in 2024: —fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024: 0not in the data
Peak year: 191832 births
Best rank: #843in 1888
Since 1884: 1,343people given the name

Babies named Elgie, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

814 boys have been named Elgie in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 32 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 32 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Elgie is used for both sexes: 39% of its bearers are girls (529), most of them born around 1927.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Elgie
1880s	12
1890s	10
1900s	17
1910s	143
1920s	190
1930s	145
1940s	114
1950s	98
1960s	55
1970s	17
1980s	13

In 1918, its biggest year

Elgie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.

Names that rose and fell with Elgie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.