Meaning not yet researched.
Elvis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 145 in 2025. Its best rank was #311 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #311 in 1957; #1,328 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elvis in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,328 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #311.
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Elvis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 145 boys in 2025. Peak: #311 in 1957 · most boys in one year: 605 (1957).
In 2025, 145 US boys were named Elvis, making it the 1,328th most common boys’ name of the year, down 163 places from #1,165 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 179 boys named Elvis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #311, reached in 1957. That year also had the most boys given the name: 605. For comparison, it was #1,083 in 2015 and #845 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elvis in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 8 babies. In all, 18,123 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,936 babies named Elvis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,548 US boys were named Elvis; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 188. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,780 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elvis ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #812 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Elves and Elviz 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elves (14), Elviz (6).
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 Elvis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #812 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #831 | #1,001 |
| California | 27 | #868 | #745 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,004 | #687 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,075 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,143 | #1,010 |
| New York | 10 | #1,151 | #709 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,294 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,332 | #1,017 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,522 | #1,209 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 145 | #1,328 |
| 2024 | — | — | 179 | #1,165 |
| 2023 | — | — | 153 | #1,261 |
| 2022 | — | — | 152 | #1,273 |
| 2021 | — | — | 122 | #1,473 |
| 2020 | — | — | 134 | #1,337 |
| 2019 | — | — | 168 | #1,159 |
| 2018 | — | — | 155 | #1,210 |
| 2017 | — | — | 152 | #1,208 |
| 2016 | — | — | 188 | #1,051 |
| 2015 | — | — | 181 | #1,083 |
| 2014 | — | — | 187 | #1,059 |
| 2013 | — | — | 185 | #1,040 |
| 2012 | — | — | 184 | #1,044 |
| 2011 | — | — | 224 | #904 |
| 2010 | — | — | 193 | #1,013 |
| 2009 | — | — | 249 | #856 |
| 2008 | — | — | 325 | #715 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,097 | 355 | #674 |
| 2006 | — | — | 273 | #766 |
| 2005 | — | — | 247 | #787 |
| 2004 | — | — | 280 | #696 |
| 2003 | — | — | 275 | #694 |
| 2002 | — | — | 315 | #627 |
| 2001 | — | — | 278 | #658 |
| 2000 | — | — | 333 | #593 |
| 1999 | — | — | 361 | #555 |
| 1998 | — | — | 237 | #703 |
| 1997 | — | — | 214 | #725 |
| 1996 | — | — | 188 | #777 |
| 1995 | — | — | 220 | #718 |
| 1994 | — | — | 185 | #780 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,247 | 252 | #648 |
| 1992 | — | — | 190 | #750 |
| 1991 | — | — | 193 | #732 |
| 1990 | — | — | 200 | #720 |
| 1989 | — | — | 243 | #642 |
| 1988 | — | — | 183 | #692 |
| 1987 | — | — | 211 | #630 |
| 1986 | — | — | 161 | #715 |
| 1985 | — | — | 201 | #616 |
| 1984 | — | — | 154 | #704 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,366 | 182 | #635 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,972 | 171 | #669 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,881 | 208 | #594 |
| 1980 | — | — | 229 | #571 |
| 1979 | — | — | 275 | #503 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,217 | 365 | #404 |
| 1977 | — | — | 299 | #466 |
| 1976 | — | — | 148 | #679 |
| 1975 | — | — | 110 | #792 |
| 1974 | — | — | 145 | #676 |
| 1973 | — | — | 157 | #634 |
| 1972 | — | — | 119 | #729 |
| 1971 | — | — | 130 | #724 |
| 1970 | — | — | 131 | #719 |
| 1969 | — | — | 148 | #649 |
| 1968 | — | — | 139 | #643 |
| 1967 | — | — | 167 | #585 |
| 1966 | — | — | 118 | #682 |
| 1965 | — | — | 157 | #610 |
| 1964 | — | — | 130 | #677 |
| 1963 | — | — | 137 | #668 |
| 1962 | — | — | 168 | #598 |
| 1961 | — | — | 190 | #573 |
| 1960 | — | — | 242 | #510 |
| 1959 | — | — | 265 | #480 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,366 | 374 | #404 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,366 | 605 | #311 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,483 | 417 | #362 |
| 1955 | — | — | 65 | #923 |
| 1954 | — | — | 46 | #1,104 |
| 1953 | — | — | 34 | #1,292 |
| 1952 | — | — | 54 | #973 |
| 1951 | — | — | 45 | #1,074 |
| 1950 | — | — | 65 | #845 |
| 1949 | — | — | 50 | #987 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,485 | 41 | #1,113 |
| 1947 | — | — | 66 | #854 |
| 1946 | — | — | 55 | #892 |
| 1945 | — | — | 49 | #919 |
| 1944 | — | — | 56 | #846 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,335 | 60 | #860 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,838 | 55 | #893 |
| 1941 | — | — | 54 | #860 |
| 1940 | — | — | 77 | #690 |
| 1939 | — | — | 69 | #719 |
| 1938 | — | — | 54 | #848 |
| 1937 | — | — | 49 | #883 |
| 1936 | — | — | 59 | #800 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,790 | 49 | #907 |
| 1934 | — | — | 74 | #711 |
| 1933 | — | — | 56 | #829 |
| 1932 | — | — | 56 | #856 |
| 1931 | — | — | 62 | #796 |
| 1930 | — | — | 79 | #700 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,793 | 81 | #686 |
| 1928 | — | — | 95 | #639 |
| 1927 | — | — | 64 | #841 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,115 | 89 | #672 |
| 1925 | — | — | 75 | #761 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,474 | 64 | #861 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,737 | 103 | #633 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,233 | 106 | #626 |
| 1921 | — | — | 85 | #711 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,553 | 74 | #769 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,029 | 106 | #584 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,603 | 92 | #643 |
| 1917 | — | — | 69 | #753 |
| 1916 | — | — | 61 | #792 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,216 | 66 | #737 |
| 1914 | — | — | 48 | #763 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,336 | 29 | #917 |
| 1912 | — | — | 43 | #638 |
| 1911 | — | — | 15 | #871 |
| 1910 | — | — | 18 | #716 |
| 1909 | — | — | 12 | #858 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,044 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #889 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #871 |
| 1905 | — | — | 12 | #716 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #910 |
| 1902 | — | — | 12 | #661 |
| 1901 | — | — | 7 | #885 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #987 |
| 1899 | — | — | 11 | #630 |
| 1898 | — | — | 9 | #766 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #808 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,131 |
| 1893 | — | — | 7 | #858 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #880 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,016 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #979 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #788 |
| 1881 | — | — | 8 | #667 |
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).