Meaning not yet researched.
Elle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 668 in 2025. Its best rank was #355 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #355 in 2019; #461 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#461 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #355.
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Elle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 668 girls in 2025. Peak: #355 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 890 (2019).
In 2025, 668 US girls were named Elle, making it the 461st most common girls’ name of the year, up 18 places from #479 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 644 girls named Elle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #355, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 890. For comparison, it was #397 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elle in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 19,247 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,105 babies named Elle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,895 US girls were named Elle; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 890. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,406 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elle ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #228 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ella (352,214 babies since 1880), Ellen (276,029 babies since 1880), Ellie (106,857 babies since 1880) and Nelle (5,794 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as El, Ell and Iole 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 Dutch and Estonian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: El (284), Ell (154), Iole (18), Eile (10), Yll (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 Elle in the open dataset we use.
Elle is listed as a nickname for Eliana.
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 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 15 | #228 | #275 |
| Nevada | 10 | #272 | — |
| Utah | 15 | #296 | #230 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #326 | — |
| Louisiana | 14 | #327 | #302 |
| Illinois | 33 | #328 | #320 |
| California | 97 | #336 | #427 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #361 | #227 |
| New York | 44 | #394 | #323 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #406 | #380 |
| Florida | 46 | #407 | #292 |
| Arizona | 16 | #423 | #415 |
| Missouri | 14 | #424 | #316 |
| Iowa | 7 | #452 | #338 |
| Indiana | 15 | #455 | #423 |
| New Jersey | 17 | #455 | #371 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #456 | #600 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #470 | #412 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #495 | #505 |
| Texas | 64 | #502 | #594 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #507 | — |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #530 | #279 |
| Michigan | 14 | #562 | #464 |
| Ohio | 18 | #569 | #391 |
| Alabama | 8 | #591 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #591 | #659 |
| Colorado | 9 | #603 | #246 |
| Kansas | 5 | #607 | #655 |
| Maryland | 8 | #615 | #254 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #639 | #595 |
| Washington | 9 | #700 | #323 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #717 | #686 |
| Georgia | 14 | #717 | #403 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #767 | #522 |
| Virginia | 7 | #968 | #599 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 668 | #461 | — | — |
| 2024 | 644 | #479 | — | — |
| 2023 | 702 | #441 | — | — |
| 2022 | 795 | #394 | — | — |
| 2021 | 870 | #357 | — | — |
| 2020 | 842 | #370 | — | — |
| 2019 | 890 | #355 | — | — |
| 2018 | 817 | #382 | — | — |
| 2017 | 833 | #375 | — | — |
| 2016 | 834 | #399 | — | — |
| 2015 | 819 | #397 | — | — |
| 2014 | 825 | #396 | — | — |
| 2013 | 749 | #408 | — | — |
| 2012 | 822 | #383 | — | — |
| 2011 | 766 | #414 | — | — |
| 2010 | 750 | #420 | — | — |
| 2009 | 709 | #444 | — | — |
| 2008 | 642 | #492 | — | — |
| 2007 | 677 | #475 | — | — |
| 2006 | 653 | #481 | — | — |
| 2005 | 594 | #505 | — | — |
| 2004 | 596 | #494 | — | — |
| 2003 | 497 | #556 | — | — |
| 2002 | 418 | #612 | — | — |
| 2001 | 197 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 2000 | 181 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1999 | 170 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1998 | 145 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1997 | 142 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1996 | 141 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1995 | 130 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1994 | 125 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1992 | 103 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1991 | 110 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1990 | 91 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,359 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,870 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,607 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,365 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,877 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,133 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,065 | — | — |
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).