Meaning not yet researched.
Elza: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #961 in 1883.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #961 in 1883; #11,226 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elza in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,226 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1883, at #961.
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Elza: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #961 in 1883 · most girls in one year: 22 (2014).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Elza, making it the 11,226th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,876 places from #7,350 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 15 girls named Elza in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #961, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 22, in 2014. For comparison, it was #7,738 in 2015 and #5,534 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Elza in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #343, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 68, in 1922. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,481 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elza in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 25 babies. In all, 2,942 US babies have been given the name, 28% of them girls and 72% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 670 babies named Elza.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 131 US girls were named Elza; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 18. 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 Elsa (30,731 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elzina 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, Hungarian, Latvian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Elzina (183).
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 Elza 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 | #11,226 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,350 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,762 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,071 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,773 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,130 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,260 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,607 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,509 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,715 | — | — |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,738 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,853 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,196 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,338 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,622 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,652 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,149 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,891 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,344 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,978 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,910 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,458 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,185 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,576 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,157 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,754 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,620 | 6 | #7,446 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,962 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,300 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,298 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,491 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,861 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,723 | 5 | #5,871 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,162 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,423 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,176 | 7 | #4,102 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,540 | 6 | #4,396 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,703 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,459 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,276 | 7 | #3,325 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,060 | 7 | #3,376 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,134 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,856 | 9 | #2,910 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,762 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,164 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,705 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,122 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,976 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,117 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,381 | 17 | #1,921 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,636 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,323 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,180 |
| 1951 | — | — | 16 | #1,929 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,534 | 10 | #2,481 |
| 1949 | — | — | 19 | #1,719 |
| 1948 | — | — | 17 | #1,839 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,482 | 16 | #1,942 |
| 1946 | — | — | 14 | #1,975 |
| 1945 | — | — | 21 | #1,459 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,204 | 25 | #1,343 |
| 1943 | — | — | 22 | #1,500 |
| 1942 | — | — | 20 | #1,600 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,097 | 17 | #1,711 |
| 1940 | — | — | 21 | #1,490 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,546 | 32 | #1,150 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,977 | 24 | #1,375 |
| 1937 | — | — | 31 | #1,190 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,191 | 27 | #1,275 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,238 | 41 | #999 |
| 1934 | — | — | 25 | #1,367 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,522 | 27 | #1,285 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,885 | 41 | #1,041 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,133 | 35 | #1,155 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,134 | 43 | #1,058 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,625 | 39 | #1,116 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,936 | 35 | #1,216 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,958 | 57 | #901 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,098 | 48 | #996 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,462 | 38 | #1,149 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,944 | 59 | #908 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,627 | 50 | #986 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,024 | 68 | #822 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,882 | 63 | #878 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,301 | 66 | #828 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,416 | 55 | #901 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,308 | 65 | #810 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,024 | 45 | #968 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,891 | 49 | #900 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,293 | 44 | #944 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,939 | 36 | #911 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,802 | 34 | #823 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,457 | 29 | #818 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,276 | 17 | #802 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,822 | 11 | #1,001 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,647 | 8 | #1,106 |
| 1908 | — | — | 13 | #756 |
| 1907 | — | — | 13 | #754 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,801 | 11 | #775 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,458 | 16 | #600 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,119 | 12 | #698 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,876 | 5 | #1,176 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,873 | 11 | #703 |
| 1901 | — | — | 14 | #541 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,478 | 16 | #633 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,675 | 9 | #734 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,411 | 9 | #767 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,300 | 10 | #693 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,156 | 19 | #469 |
| 1895 | — | — | 19 | #460 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,271 | 15 | #524 |
| 1893 | — | — | 18 | #437 |
| 1892 | — | — | 17 | #483 |
| 1891 | — | — | 18 | #417 |
| 1890 | — | — | 15 | #495 |
| 1889 | — | — | 22 | #382 |
| 1888 | — | — | 17 | #471 |
| 1887 | — | — | 16 | #427 |
| 1886 | — | — | 19 | #405 |
| 1885 | — | — | 15 | #486 |
| 1884 | — | — | 24 | #363 |
| 1883 | 5 | #961 | 18 | #417 |
| 1882 | — | — | 14 | #499 |
| 1881 | — | — | 14 | #469 |
| 1880 | — | — | 25 | #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).