Elli

#2,957 for girls in 2025, 56 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #10,775
Given to girls 98.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
2014 · 121 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,763
since 1955

Elli over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Elli has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202011peak #1,728, 2014girls
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,95756
2024#2,93056
2023#2,55569
2022#2,85659
2021#2,67464
2020#2,44171
2019#2,42873
2018#2,21783
2017#2,54669#10,7756
2016#2,05496#9,6647
2015#2,03996#12,0865
2014#1,728121
2013#2,05294
2012#1,831110#9,7097
2011#2,07393
2010#1,818112
2009#2,005103
2008#2,004104
2007#2,34881
2006#2,05096
2005#2,08889
2004#1,756109
2003#1,94793
2002#1,86695
2001#2,66356#10,5565
2000#2,70854
1999#2,64053
1998#2,75648
1997#2,97740
1996#3,83128
1995#3,08737
1994#3,70429
1993#5,41917
1992#4,23624
1991#4,49722
1990#4,86819
1989#5,28616
1988#6,66611#7,2705
1987#6,78810
1986#5,45913
1985#6,9559
1984#7,3988
1983#8,0477
1982#4,94514
1981#4,00519
1980#6,7899
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1978#8,5626
1977#6,3409
1976#6,6118
1975#5,51610
1974#4,72012
1973#6,6667
1972#7,2926
1971#4,81011
1970#7,0706
1969#7,4715
1968#6,2466
1967#6,8045
1966#5,2737
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1958#6,1035
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1955#5,2086
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First appearance
1955

The first year at least five girls were named Elli! It came in at #5,208, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1956–1961, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Elli
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 27 spots since 2024 (#2,930#2,957)
  • 516 spots since 2020 (#2,441#2,957)
  • 918 spots since 2015 (#2,039#2,957)
Rise & fade · girls
59 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1955
  • Peaked 2014 at #1,728 (121 births)
  • Births halved by 2022, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,763
  • Highest: 1 in 14,763 girls born in 2014 were named Elli (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 28,701 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 34.3% of all girls named Elli (947) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s21#5,208 (1955)#5,877
1960s32#4,533 (1962)#6,065
1970s75#4,720 (1974)#6,399
1980s116#4,005 (1981)#6,234
1990s317#2,640 (1999)#3,802
2000s880#1,756 (2004)#2,144
2010s947#1,728 (2014)#2,079
2020s375#2,441 (2020)#2,736

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.

Elli in 2011

girls
#2,073
93 births · 1 in 18,915 girls

Top girls' names in 2011

  1. #1Sophia21,863
  2. #2Isabella19,931
  3. #3Emma18,825
  4. #4Olivia17,335
  5. #5Ava15,518
  6. #6Emily14,277
  7. #7Abigail13,266
  8. #8Madison12,406
  9. #9Mia11,543
  10. #10Chloe11,007
  11. #2,073Elli93
More about 2011

girls

1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 18,915 of them was named Elli, which outranked 89.4% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Elli
  1. #2,058Tyanna94
  2. #2,058Yoselyn94
  3. #2,058Zora94
  4. #2,073Elli93
  5. #2,073Daelyn93
  6. #2,073Emry93
  7. #2,073Joanne93
  8. #2,088Aiden92
  9. #2,088Alyanna92
  10. #2,088Delainey92

Tied with 14 names at #2,073; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2010
Risers
  1. 814Milania#1,629#815
  2. 554Alianna#1,529#975
  3. 444Hattie#1,438#994
  4. 419Aviana#1,185#766
  5. 414Avianna#1,249#835
Fallers
  1. 1,131Allisson#796#1,927
  2. 350Shaniya#565#915
  3. 346Brisa#464#810
  4. 335Alexus#976#1,311
  5. 273Abigale#909#1,182

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

See the top 100 for 2011