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Elga

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Holy

Elga has been given to 130 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1927, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Elga, 1982

1 in 702,000

Elga over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Elga over time

In 1982, Elga went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19141982

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Elga: meaning, origin, and history

Holy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elga means

Elga means “holy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Elga is used in Latvian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 120 girls were recorded with the name Elga between 1914 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,593 in 1927.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Elga between 1917 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1917; its best national rank was #4,155 in 1917.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elga?

Elga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982
1 in 702,000
5 of 3,507,638 births
Among girls only
1 in 339,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1982
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
486,263 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elga 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 1982 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 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elgas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elga was born before 1927 — so the typical Elga is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
47.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
40
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1920s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Elga 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 1927 (27)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,593
1927

Spellings of Elga

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

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.

Where Elga is used

Across 1910–2025, Elga was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Elga has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elga around the world

Where Elga 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.

  • France
    1943–2023
    #7,622
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1963–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elga 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
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Best rank ever
#1,593
1927
Peak year
1927
27 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
120
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,155
1917
Peak year
1917
5 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elga

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

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Sibling names for Elga

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

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