Meaning not yet researched.
Elie: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #495 in 1886.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #495 in 1886; #3,535 in 2025. About 76% of babies named Elie in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,535 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1886, at #495.
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Elie: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 boys in 2025. Peak: #495 in 1886 · most boys in one year: 56 (2009).
In 2025, 32 US boys were named Elie, making it the 3,535th most common boys’ name of the year, down 300 places from #3,235 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 37 boys named Elie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #495, reached in 1886. The most boys given the name in a single year was 56, in 2009. For comparison, it was #3,255 in 2015 and #2,245 in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Elie, making it the 9,633rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,904 places from #12,537 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 7 girls named Elie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,521, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #5,521 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elie in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 3,405 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 565 babies named Elie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 343 US boys were named Elie; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,377 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eli (154,512 babies since 1880), Elias (129,502 babies since 1880), Ilya (1,226 babies since 1880) and Ellie (106,857 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elihue and Ilee 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elihue (208), Ilee (162).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Elie 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 | 10 | #9,633 | 32 | #3,535 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,537 | 37 | #3,235 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,360 | 38 | #3,192 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,799 | 41 | #3,021 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,366 | 26 | #4,046 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,666 | 32 | #3,443 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,855 | 27 | #3,922 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,769 | 35 | #3,260 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,961 | 37 | #3,142 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,356 | 38 | #3,079 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,521 | 35 | #3,255 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,182 | 45 | #2,677 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,317 | 51 | #2,435 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,916 | 43 | #2,786 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,651 | 50 | #2,483 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,454 | 46 | #2,651 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,891 | 56 | #2,330 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,236 | 47 | #2,642 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,638 | 45 | #2,694 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,981 | 45 | #2,631 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,059 | 26 | #3,647 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,182 | 48 | #2,357 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,705 | 37 | #2,690 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,607 | 28 | #3,208 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,448 | 30 | #3,010 |
| 2000 | — | — | 45 | #2,204 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,641 | 38 | #2,365 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,409 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,190 | 27 | #2,847 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,449 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,415 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #3,975 |
| 1993 | — | — | 31 | #2,417 |
| 1992 | — | — | 29 | #2,481 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,612 | 33 | #2,200 |
| 1990 | — | — | 30 | #2,329 |
| 1989 | — | — | 33 | #2,117 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,891 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,353 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,313 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,879 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,189 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,437 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,455 |
| 1981 | — | — | 25 | #2,102 |
| 1980 | — | — | 22 | #2,301 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,406 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,505 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,821 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,806 |
| 1975 | — | — | 18 | #2,390 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,193 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,253 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,102 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,455 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,924 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,925 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,835 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,068 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,320 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,648 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,742 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,729 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,305 |
| 1961 | — | — | 19 | #1,899 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,197 |
| 1959 | — | — | 18 | #1,930 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,551 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,118 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,197 |
| 1955 | — | — | 16 | #1,992 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,142 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #1,986 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,880 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,283 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,245 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,054 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,663 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,871 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,582 |
| 1945 | — | — | 11 | #2,163 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,355 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,315 |
| 1942 | — | — | 17 | #1,753 |
| 1941 | — | — | 16 | #1,780 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,928 |
| 1939 | — | — | 19 | #1,544 |
| 1938 | — | — | 17 | #1,707 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,119 |
| 1936 | — | — | 19 | #1,558 |
| 1935 | — | — | 18 | #1,676 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,678 |
| 1933 | — | — | 19 | #1,606 |
| 1932 | — | — | 20 | #1,603 |
| 1931 | — | — | 17 | #1,793 |
| 1930 | — | — | 23 | #1,543 |
| 1929 | — | — | 26 | #1,420 |
| 1928 | — | — | 31 | #1,301 |
| 1927 | — | — | 35 | #1,234 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,746 |
| 1925 | — | — | 31 | #1,310 |
| 1924 | — | — | 34 | #1,253 |
| 1923 | — | — | 30 | #1,334 |
| 1922 | — | — | 24 | #1,555 |
| 1921 | — | — | 28 | #1,424 |
| 1920 | — | — | 25 | #1,518 |
| 1919 | — | — | 34 | #1,214 |
| 1918 | — | — | 28 | #1,354 |
| 1917 | — | — | 25 | #1,408 |
| 1916 | — | — | 33 | #1,142 |
| 1915 | — | — | 25 | #1,349 |
| 1914 | — | — | 22 | #1,277 |
| 1913 | — | — | 17 | #1,273 |
| 1912 | — | — | 19 | #1,070 |
| 1911 | — | — | 14 | #903 |
| 1910 | — | — | 9 | #1,140 |
| 1909 | — | — | 9 | #1,042 |
| 1908 | — | — | 12 | #793 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,128 |
| 1906 | — | — | 8 | #954 |
| 1905 | — | — | 11 | #757 |
| 1903 | — | — | 10 | #747 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,046 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #694 |
| 1900 | — | — | 19 | #561 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,177 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #873 |
| 1896 | — | — | 11 | #686 |
| 1895 | — | — | 10 | #706 |
| 1894 | — | — | 10 | #686 |
| 1893 | — | — | 12 | #583 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,116 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,013 |
| 1890 | — | — | 8 | #766 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #908 |
| 1888 | — | — | 9 | #716 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #770 |
| 1886 | — | — | 14 | #495 |
| 1885 | — | — | 7 | #784 |
| 1884 | — | — | 7 | #795 |
| 1883 | — | — | 13 | #500 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #719 |
| 1881 | — | — | 7 | #729 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #949 |
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).