Elvis
About 18,123 American babies have been named Elvis since 1881, most of them around 1957. In 2025 it ranked 1,328th. About 14,000 Elvises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elvis boys named Elvis
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,123
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 311th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,328th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 152 / 17,971
How old the living Elvises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,123 babies given the name since 1881, about 14,000 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 3,300 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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.
Where the name comes from
From the anglicisation of the Irish name of Saint Ailbe Saint Elvis, also known as Saint Eilfyw or Eilfw. Ultimate origin is.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Elviss
- Elvis Presley (1935–1977)American singer and actor
- Elvis Costello (born 1954)English singer-songwriter
- Elvis Merzļikins (born 1994)Latvian ice hockey player
- Elvis Stojko (born 1972)Canadian figure skater
- Elvis Manu (born 1993)Dutch association football player
- Elvis Rexhbeçaj (born 1997)German footballer
- Elvis Gregory (born 1971)Cuban fencer
- Elvis Brajković (born 1969)Croatian footballer
People named Elvis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Elvis is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elvis is most concentrated in Arkansas (2.8×), New York (2.2×), Texas (1.8×), Mississippi (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular boys’ names the year Elvis peaked:
Elvis elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Elvis | 2,425 | 238th |
| Italy boys | Elvis | 732 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Elvis | 697 | 716th |
| Switzerland boys | Elvis | 199 | 448th |
| Belgium boys | Elvis | 102 | 843rd |
| Ireland boys | Elvis | 43 | 337th |
| Poland boys | Elvis | 17 birth registrations | 432nd |
| Scotland boys | Elvis | 3 | 720th |
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.
Elvis: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Elvis | 139 | 0.011% | 385th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Elvis | 56 | 0.013% | 263rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Elvis | 4 | 0.006% | 194th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Elvis is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.02% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Elvis: rank by region
In 2022, Elvis was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Elvis | 498 | 5 |
In 2013, Elvis was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Elvis | 10 | 1 |
In 2021, Elvis was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Elvis | 280 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Elvis by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 6 | 578th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Elvis among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Elvis | 164 | 364 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Elvis lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 817 men called Elvis were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Elvis | 6 | 0.076 | 807 |
| Ourense | Elvis | 11 | 0.075 | 712 |
| León | Elvis | 15 | 0.069 | 799 |
| Palmas, Las | Elvis | 39 | 0.067 | 1,254 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Elvis | 34 | 0.064 | 1,318 |
| Asturias | Elvis | 30 | 0.062 | 894 |
Listed in 38 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 14 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Elvis against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.