Elree
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elree has been given to 48 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1921, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.
Babies named Elree, 1937
1 in 355,000
Elree 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Elree over time
In 1937, Elree went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Elree?
Elree had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1937, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1937
- 1 in 355,000
- 6 of 2,130,660 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 178,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1937
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 246,145 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elree sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1937 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 246,145 children born in 1937 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elree. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elrees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elree was born before 1923 — so the typical Elree is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 67.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 67.6% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Elree 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 1921 (6)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.3% average annual change
Spellings of Elree
Elree is not the most common spelling — Lee is, with 51.2% against Elree'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.
Elree by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Elree
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elree
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.