Elke
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1968 · 77 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,116since 1953
Elke over time
Rank among girls' names. Elke has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 |
| 1979 | #3,078 | 27 |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 |
| 1977 | #2,515 | 34 |
| 1976 | #2,865 | 26 |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 |
| 1974 | #3,008 | 23 |
| 1973 | #2,349 | 32 |
| 1972 | #1,749 | 50 |
| 1971 | #2,107 | 39 |
| 1970 | #1,681 | 55 |
| 1969 | #1,755 | 48 |
| 1968 | #1,244 | 77 |
| 1967 | #1,495 | 56 |
| 1966 | #1,548 | 52 |
| 1965 | #1,575 | 50 |
| 1964 | #2,071 | 33 |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 |
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| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Elke! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1956, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Elke
- 1,015 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #10,107)
- 561 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #10,107)
- 759 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #10,107)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1968 at #1,244 (77 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,304 girls born in 1968 were named Elke (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.7% of all girls named Elke (354) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 17 | #5,377 (1957) | #5,486 |
| 1960s | 354 | #1,244 (1968) | #2,799 |
| 1970s | 339 | #1,681 (1970) | #2,511 |
| 1980s | 112 | #3,506 (1980) | #6,353 |
| 1990s | 73 | #6,652 (1992) | #9,354 |
| 2000s | 98 | #8,027 (2000) | #10,785 |
| 2010s | 82 | #8,053 (2014) | #12,162 |
| 2020s | 41 | #9,546 (2020) | #11,252 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Elke in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 30,425 of them was named Elke, which outranked 81.9% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,724Shanell51
- #1,724Stephannie51
- #1,724Tari51
- #1,749Elke50
- #1,749Brandon50
- #1,749Corine50
- #1,749Elida50
- #1,771Ariana49
- #1,771Bernadine49
- #1,771Chad49
Tied with 21 names at #1,749; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.