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Elbert vs Elberta

American parents have registered 33,608 Elberts since 1880, against 1,750 Elbertas. Elbert is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Elbert against Elberta, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Elbert Elberta

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

Elbert has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1906, when Elbert had 85 and Elberta had 18.

Side by side

  Elbert Elberta
Total US births 33,6081,750
Most in one year 79361
Babies in 2025 9under 5
Estimated living today 9,800310
Median age today 6679
Peak year 19201916
Best rank 181st boys872nd girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rdunranked
First recorded 18801883
Girls / boys 97 / 33,5111,750 / 0

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 Elbertas alive today are over 79; half the Elberts are over 66. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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