Elzie
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elzie has been given to 4,531 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1917, with 109 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.
Babies named Elzie, 2023
1 in 552,000
Elzie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Elzie over time
In 2025, Elzie went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Elzie?
Elzie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 552,000
- 6 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,940 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elzie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elzie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elzies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elzie was born before 1927 — so the typical Elzie is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 774
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (882).
Is Elzie 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 1917 (109)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.9% average annual change
Spellings of Elzie
Elzie is not the most common spelling — Eddie is, with 38.9% against Elzie's 0.71%.
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 Elzie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Elzie was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 44,547 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Elzie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Elzie is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Elzie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 605,350 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2Arkansas1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Mississippi1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Elzie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Elzie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Elzie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Elzie
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elzie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Elzie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.