Elvia

Where Elvia comes from

Elvia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1878
    Elvia Carrillo born
    Mexican politician
  2. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,136 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1904
    Elvia Allman born
    American actress
  4. 1948
    Peak, #845
    107 babies named Elvia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,888.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Elvia Carrillo · Mexican politician, 1878–1968
  • Elvia Allman · American actress, 1904–1992
  • Elvia Ardalani · writer and storyteller, born 1963
  • Elvia Andreoli · Argentine actress, 1951–2020
  • Elvia Reyes · fencer, born 1956

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.