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Elba vs Elbridge

American parents have registered 3,706 Elbas since 1880, against 659 Elbridges. Elba is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Elba against Elbridge, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Elba Elbridge

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Elba for 137 years and Elbridge for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Elba Elbridge
Total US births 3,706659
Most in one year 8227
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 2,40090
Median age today 5477
Peak year 19561920
Best rank 1,141st girls1,416th boys
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 18881881
Girls / boys 3,393 / 3130 / 659

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Elbridges alive today are over 77; half the Elbas are over 54. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Elba and Elbridge.