Elige
Last seen for boys in 1971 at #4,907
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 528since 1880
Elige over time
Rank among boys' names. Elige has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| rank | births | |
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| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
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| 1966 | — | |
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| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | — | |
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| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,030 | 13 |
| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,964 | 7 |
| 1942 | #2,386 | 10 |
| 1941 | #3,133 | 6 |
| 1940 | #2,179 | 11 |
| 1939 | #2,829 | 7 |
| 1938 | #2,479 | 9 |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #2,629 | 8 |
| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
| 1934 | #2,742 | 8 |
| 1933 | #2,542 | 9 |
| 1932 | #2,638 | 9 |
| 1931 | #2,207 | 12 |
| 1930 | #2,781 | 9 |
| 1929 | #2,452 | 11 |
| 1928 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,904 | 9 |
| 1925 | #2,012 | 16 |
| 1924 | #1,839 | 19 |
| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #2,801 | 10 |
| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | #2,231 | 14 |
| 1919 | #1,973 | 16 |
| 1918 | #2,260 | 13 |
| 1917 | #1,986 | 15 |
| 1916 | #1,849 | 16 |
| 1915 | #2,310 | 11 |
| 1914 | #1,975 | 11 |
| 1913 | #1,676 | 11 |
| 1912 | #1,619 | 10 |
| 1911 | #1,190 | 9 |
| 1910 | #782 | 15 |
| 1909 | #1,277 | 6 |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,200 | 6 |
| 1906 | #1,111 | 6 |
| 1905 | #1,091 | 6 |
| 1904 | #966 | 7 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #902 | 9 |
| 1899 | #714 | 9 |
| 1898 | #1,002 | 6 |
| 1897 | #942 | 6 |
| 1896 | #982 | 6 |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #954 | 6 |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | #956 | 6 |
| 1891 | #841 | 6 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #974 | 5 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | #694 | 8 |
| 1885 | #641 | 9 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #892 | 5 |
| 1882 | #691 | 8 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #640 | 9 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Elige was already there! It came in at #640, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Elige is popular in 1897
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Elige
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1971
- Biggest jump: 495 spots in 1910 (#1,277 → #782)
- Biggest drop: 408 spots in 1911 (#782 → #1,190)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #640 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1882–1883
- Highest: 1 in 11,801 boys born in 1899 were named Elige (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 353,689 boys born in 1971 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #640 in 1880, was only 1 in 12,277 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.1% of all boys named Elige (127) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 44 | #640 (1880) | #755 |
| 1890s | 45 | #714 (1899) | #913 |
| 1900s | 40 | #902 (1900) | #1,091 |
| 1910s | 127 | #782 (1910) | #1,762 |
| 1920s | 99 | #1,839 (1924) | #2,787 |
| 1930s | 83 | #2,207 (1931) | #2,732 |
| 1940s | 52 | #2,030 (1946) | #2,672 |
| 1950s | 23 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,492 |
| 1960s | 10 | #4,033 (1962) | #4,036 |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,907 (1971) | #4,907 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Elige in 1897
Top boys' names in 1897
More about 1897
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112,757 boys got a published name in 1897; 1 in 18,793 of them was named Elige, which outranked 23.4% of the 1,229 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).