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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Elga

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

120

peak year 1927

More common than

65%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1927
27 births
Best rank
#1,594
in 1927
First recorded
1914
#2,716 that year
Last recorded
1982
no later published record
Average birth year
1935
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
17 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192727#1,594Peak
  2. 19179#3,164
  3. 19148#2,716
  4. 19298#3,472
  5. 19207#4,094

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,594 in 1927 · peak births 27 in 1927

Boys and girls

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

● 8% boys■ 92% girls

10 boys · 120 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 Elga has ranked, decade by decade

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