Elle

#461 for girls in 2025, 668 births

Peak · girls
2019 · 890 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
19,247
since 1977

Elle over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Elle has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202023peak #354, 2019girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#461668
2024#479644
2023#441702
2022#393795
2021#357870
2020#370842
2019#354890
2018#382817
2017#375833
2016#399834
2015#397819
2014#395825
2013#408749
2012#383822
2011#414766
2010#420750
2009#443709
2008#492642
2007#475677
2006#481653
2005#505594
2004#494596
2003#556497
2002#612418
2001#1,076197
2000#1,127181
1999#1,153170
1998#1,254145
1997#1,249142
1996#1,238141
1995#1,286130
1994#1,341125
1993#1,61194
1992#1,523103
1991#1,443110
1990#1,63491
1989#1,49696
1988#2,64640
1987#3,33127
1986#5,75712
1985#8,3187
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five girls were named Elle! It came in at #9,652, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1979–1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Elle
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 18 spots since 2024 (#479#461)
  • 91 spots since 2020 (#370#461)
  • 64 spots since 2015 (#397#461)
  • Biggest jump: 464 spots in 2002 (#1,076#612)
  • Biggest drop: 48 spots in 2023 (#393#441)
Rise & fade · girls
42 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 2019 at #354 (890 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 24 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,886
  • Highest: 1 in 1,886 girls born in 2019 were named Elle (0.05%)
  • Latest: 1 in 2,406 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 42.1% of all girls named Elle (8,105) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s13#6,948 (1978)#8,300
1980s193#1,496 (1989)#5,853
1990s1,251#1,153 (1999)#1,373
2000s5,164#443 (2009)#626
2010s8,105#354 (2019)#393
2020s4,521#357 (2021)#417

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.

Elle in 2023

girls
#441
702 births · 1 in 2,286 girls

Top girls' names in 2023

  1. #1Olivia15,329
  2. #2Emma13,590
  3. #3Charlotte12,638
  4. #4Amelia12,365
  5. #5Sophia11,999
  6. #6Mia11,404
  7. #7Isabella10,871
  8. #8Ava9,737
  9. #9Evelyn9,121
  10. #10Luna7,853
  11. #441Elle702
More about 2023

girls

1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 2,286 of them was named Elle, which outranked 97.5% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Elle
  1. #438Destiny708
  2. #438Matilda708
  3. #440Alicia703
  4. #441Elle702
  5. #442Colette699
  6. #443Anya695
  7. #444Madeleine689
Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. 1,640Kaeli#2,319#679
  2. 1,512Alitzel#2,388#876
  3. 1,287Emryn#2,174#887
  4. 813Adhara#1,583#770
  5. 717Azari#1,412#695
Fallers
  1. 364Addilynn#940#1,304
  2. 296India#968#1,264
  3. 259Madisyn#805#1,064
  4. 231Chanel#937#1,168
  5. 219Averi#906#1,125

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2023