Elfie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elfie has been given to 316 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 1914, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Elfie, 1928
1 in 452,000
Elfie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Elfie?
Elfie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1928
- 1 in 452,000
- 5 of 2,260,857 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1928
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 313,422 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elfie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1928 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 313,422 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elfie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elfies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elfie was born before 1912 — so the typical Elfie is around 113 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 27.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (87).
Is Elfie 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1914 (17)
- Years since peak
- 111
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.4% average annual change
Spellings of Elfie
Elfie is not the most common spelling — Elaine is, with 20.4% against Elfie's 0.02%.
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.
Elfie around the world
Where Elfie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2001–2024#4,844in 2024
- France1979–2025#7,391in 2025
- South Australia1954–1954#475in 1954
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Elfie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elfie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elfie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.