How Many People Are Named Elif?
people named Elif are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 224,562 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,534 babies named Elif in Social Security records from 1977 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
115 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Turkish form of Alif, the name of the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, ا. It also means "slender", from the Turkish phrase elif gibi, literally "shaped like Elif".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Elif in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Elif alive today is about 11 years old, and 93% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 15 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Elif first appears in the records in 1977 and was given most often in 2024, to 115 babies. In 2025, 101 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1977 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Elif has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,755, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #1,915.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,915 |
| Best rank | #1,755 (2024) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,882 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Elif alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Elif were born in New York than in any other state: about 236 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Elif was given 5.7 times as often in New Jersey, 5.3 times in New York and 1.8 times in Florida.
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