Elvie

Where Elvie comes from

The dictionaries list Elvie as a given name — a unisex given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #582
    #582 among girls with 9 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 2012
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Elvie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.