Meaning not yet researched.
Elif: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 101 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,755 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,755 in 2024; #1,915 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elif in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,915 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,755.
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Elif: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 101 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,755 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 115 (2024).
In 2025, 101 US girls were named Elif, making it the 1,915th most common girls’ name of the year, down 160 places from #1,755 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 115 girls named Elif in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,755, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #3,146 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elif in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 1,534 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 589 babies named Elif.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 832 US girls were named Elif; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 115. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,914 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elif ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #953 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Elaf, Eilaf and Elof 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 Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elaf (204), Eilaf (26), Elof (6), Elyf (5).
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 Elif in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 16 | #953 | #1,822 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,099 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,141 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,189 | #1,694 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,229 | #1,094 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,291 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #2,271 | #2,990 |
| California | 6 | #2,872 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 2023 | 90 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,222 | — | — |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 2014 | 75 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,463 | — | — |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,038 | — | — |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,297 | — | — |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,595 | — | — |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,491 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,951 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,706 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,441 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,354 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,141 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,362 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,470 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,960 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,164 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,270 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,081 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,924 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,405 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,613 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,523 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,006 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,369 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,230 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,890 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,417 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,363 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,839 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,755 | — | — |
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).