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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

El

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

246

peak year 2000

More common than

74%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2000
11 births
Best rank
#2,696
in 1936
First recorded
1915
#2,890 that year
Last recorded
2023
no later published record
Average birth year
1964
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
38 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 200011#6,032Peak
  2. 19919#5,648
  3. 19929#5,779
  4. 20039#7,423
  5. 19158#2,890

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,696 in 1936 · peak births 11 in 2000

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 87% boys■ 13% girls

246 boys · 38 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where El has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.