Elze
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elze has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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.
Babies named Elze, 1921
1 in 389,000
Elze 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Elze?
Elze had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1921, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1921
- 1 in 389,000
- 6 of 2,334,460 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 184,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1921
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 269,689 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elze sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1921 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 269,689 children born in 1921 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elze. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elzes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elze was born before 1921 — so the typical Elze is around 104 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Elze 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
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Elze
Elze is not the most common spelling — Lee is, with 36.5% against Elze'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.
Elze around the world
Where Elze 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 & Wales2010–2020#4,535in 2020
- France2020–2020#7,635in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Elze by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elze
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elze
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.