Elfa

Girls' name

Feminine form of Alf

Elfa has been given to 76 babies in the U.S. since 1892. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Elfa, 1954

1 in 796,000

Elfa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elfa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Alf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elfa means

Elfa is a feminine form of Alf.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Elfa is used in Icelandic.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Elfa is a feminine form of Alf. Alf has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alf.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 76 girls were recorded with the name Elfa between 1892 and 1954. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,326 in 1892.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Elfa?

Elfa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1954, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1954: 1 in 796,000; 5 of 3,979,464 births
Among girls only: 1 in 388,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1954: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 551,672 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Elfa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1954 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 551,672 children born in 1954 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elfa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elfas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elfa was born before 1915 — so the typical Elfa is around 110 today.

Median birth year: 1915; About 110 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 38.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 6.6%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Elfa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (7)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,326; 1892

Spellings of Elfa

Elfa is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 22.9% against Elfa's <0.01%.

Emma22.9%776,439
Ella10.4%351,313
Edna8.7%295,116
Eva8.4%284,761
Alma4.8%163,723
Elena3.2%108,013
Velma2.6%86,752
Bella2.5%83,721

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Elfa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,326; 1892
Peak year: 1915; 7 that year
First recorded: 1892
Last recorded: 1954
All-time count: 76
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Elfa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Elfie Elfida Alfa Elfrida Delfa Elfreida Elfredia Adelfa Elfriede Elfreda Elfrieda

Sibling names for Elfa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha Hettie

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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