Elba

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Elba: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Elba: Recorded every year since 2014, its highest recorded position is #2,411, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
13times a registrar ranked it
11years from first to last
#2411highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2014–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2014	#4684
2015	#4736
2016	#5785
2017	#4763
2018	#4684
2019	#4001
2020	#2449
2021	#4634
2022	#4645
2023	#4056
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2014 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2014–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2014
First recorded at #4684 among girls in England and Wales in 2014 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2014–2024
Highest recorded position: #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2014–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Elba appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 11 years beginning in 2014, and has registered 58 births with the name.

Elba across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Elba's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4684 (2014)	#2411 (2024)	#2411 (2024)	11 of 11	58 (2014–2024)	11 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#4789 (2022)	#4789 (2022)	#4991 (2023)	2 of 2	6 (2022–2023)	3 (2022)

Elba appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Names at their highest recorded position

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2014 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2411 in England and Wales in 2024.

Elba's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2014 and 2024, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,411, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
11 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,411position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
11births registered in its largest year, 2024Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Apphia · #2411, 15y
Avaleigh · #2411, 12y
Avital · #2411, 15y
Deepika · #2411, 15y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Avaleigh · #2411, 12y
Flourish · #2411, 9y
Izna · #2411, 10y
Japleen · #2411, 11y

Elba and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Elba without appearing here.

Elba moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Hunter Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Elba

Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #1785.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2706.
Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4684 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #2705.

Moved the opposite way to Elba

Abigail Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elba went from #4684 to #2411 while Abigail went from #46 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elba went from #4684 to #2411 while Aimee went from #207 to #1603.
Alex Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elba went from #4684 to #2411 while Alex went from #1177 to #2253.
Alexandra Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elba went from #4684 to #2411 while Alexandra went from #107 to #215.

Moved the same way as Elba

Ada Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elba went from #4684 to #2411 and Ada from #233 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elba went from #4684 to #2411 and Alma from #629 to #234.
Aria Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elba went from #4684 to #2411 and Aria from #170 to #35.
Astrid Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Elba went from #4684 to #2411 and Astrid from #486 to #263.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2014 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2411 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elba

Elba at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elba across 2 official records

Elba appears in

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Elba at a glance

Elba across 2 official records

Elba appears in

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Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

Elba and the names beside it

Elba moved ahead of

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