Elgie
Recorded 1884–1984 · United States
Elgie was most popular in 1918, when 44 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,051 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,343 people named Elgie.
Elgie over time
How old is the name Elgie?
Elgie first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1884, which makes it about 141 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 82 of the 142 years since. It was last recorded in 1984.
How many people are named Elgie?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,343 American births named Elgie between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 279 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Elgie in 2025?
Elgie was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Elgie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Elgie is a unisex name — 39.4% of the 1,343 Americans given it were girls and 60.6% were boys. It changed hands: since 1934 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Elgie?
Roughly 279 Americans named Elgie are alive today — 21% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 76 years old, and half are between 66 and 84.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Elgie is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org