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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Elgin

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#9,982

down −2,057 places

2025 births

7

down −3 births

All-time births

3,959

0% of them in 2025

More common than

95%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1920
69 births
Best rank
#639
in 1890
First recorded
1886
#1,008 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1959
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
129 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192069#806Peak
  2. 192769#802
  3. 196968#929
  4. 197067#993
  5. 191966#803

Rank over time

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

Best rank #639 in 1890 · peak births 69 in 1920

Boys and girls

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

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

3,959 boys · 43 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 Elgin has ranked, decade by decade

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