Elza
Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Elza was most popular in 1921, when 85 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,469 that year. In 2025 it ranked #18,449, with 8 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,942 people named Elza.
Elza over time
How old is the name Elza?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Elza is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 125 of the 146 years since.
How many people are named Elza?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,942 American births named Elza 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 711 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Elza in 2025?
8 American babies were named Elza in 2025, ranking #18,449 that year.
Is Elza getting more or less popular?
Elza is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 13 births a year across 2021–2025 against 15 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Elza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Elza is a unisex name — 28.2% of the 2,942 Americans given it were girls and 71.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
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 Elza?
Roughly 711 Americans named Elza are alive today — 24% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 55 years old, and half are between 13 and 76. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
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 Elza 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