Meaning not yet researched.
Elba: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #761 in 1891.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #761 in 1891; #11,207 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elba in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,207 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1891, at #761.
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Elba: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #761 in 1891 · most girls in one year: 82 (1956).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Elba, making it the 11,207th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,459 places from #9,748 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 10 girls named Elba in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #761, reached in 1891. The most girls given the name in a single year was 82, in 1956. For comparison, it was #11,160 in 2015 and #1,554 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elba in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 3,706 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 543 babies named Elba.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 86 US girls were named Elba; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alba (7,579 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elbia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Galician and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elbia (63).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Elba in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,207 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,748 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,157 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,745 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,404 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,914 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,282 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,016 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,564 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,090 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,160 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,366 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,722 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,913 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,472 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,969 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,748 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,509 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,486 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,821 | — | — |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,352 | — | — |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,572 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,975 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,219 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,349 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,367 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,767 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,198 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,959 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,865 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,388 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,521 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,294 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,900 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,032 | 6 | #4,599 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1967 | 55 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1966 | 64 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,625 | 5 | #4,060 |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,562 | 5 | #4,225 |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1961 | 59 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1960 | 61 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1959 | 60 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1958 | 50 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1956 | 82 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1953 | 58 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,417 | 8 | #2,904 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,240 | 10 | #2,419 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,794 | 11 | #2,220 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,901 | 6 | #3,216 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,478 | 8 | #2,704 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,021 | 7 | #2,994 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,231 | 6 | #3,362 |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,352 | 12 | #2,164 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,414 | 8 | #2,802 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,894 | 6 | #3,485 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,465 | 7 | #3,186 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,443 | 9 | #2,834 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,776 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,798 | 7 | #3,460 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,432 | 7 | #3,552 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,638 | 13 | #2,329 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,958 | 18 | #1,889 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,704 | 13 | #2,379 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,043 | 5 | #4,404 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,585 | 11 | #2,678 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,068 | 10 | #2,858 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,385 | 16 | #2,069 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,459 | 13 | #2,293 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,263 | 12 | #2,435 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,482 | 8 | #3,015 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,415 | 9 | #2,774 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,376 | 8 | #2,891 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,934 | 12 | #1,898 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,240 | 5 | #2,948 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,435 | 5 | #2,650 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,194 | 6 | #1,587 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1909 | 17 | #998 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,085 | 5 | #1,172 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,032 | 5 | #1,113 |
| 1891 | 13 | #761 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,343 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).