Elgin
Elgin is a boy's name that peaked in 1920, when it was the 805th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 9,714th. About 2,200 Elgins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elgin boys named Elgin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,002
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 805th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,714th
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 43 / 3,959
How old the living Elgins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,002 babies given the name since 1886, about 2,200 are alive — 56 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Elgins
- Elgin Baylor (1934–2021)American basketball player, coach, and executive
- Horace Elgin Dodge (1868–1920)American businessman
People named Elgin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Elgin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elgin is most concentrated in Texas (5.7×), Louisiana (3.2×), Oklahoma (2.3×), California (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Elgin peaked:
Elgin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Elgin | 4 | 3,830th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Elgin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.