Baby name

Elgie

Girl Boy

39% girls / 61% boys

Show the…

Classic name

1918 was its best year: 32 births, or 1 baby in 67,845. Few fads, plenty of staying power: it appears in 67 years out of 146. No births recorded in 2025: the name is no longer given, or too rarely to be published.

814births since 1880

1910sgeneration

No. 1231rank at its peak, in 1918

One letter apart

Elgin 3,959
Elzie 3,859
Elie 3,015
Algie 1,529
Ellie 1,180

Born in…

Your birth year

Add your year to see.

Girls and boys, decade by decade

Decade	Girls	Boys
1880s	40%	60%
1890s	84%	16%
1900s	78%	22%
1910s	41%	59%
1920s	42%	58%
1930s	43%	57%
1940s	35%	65%
1950s	0%	100%
1960s	0%	100%
1970s	0%	100%
1980s	0%	100%