Elfrieda
Elfrieda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 654th, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191767 births
- Best rank
- #654in 1898
- Since 1882
- 1,487people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,487 girls have been named Elfrieda in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 67 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 67 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 27%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1917, its biggest year
Elfrieda was the 834th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Elfrieda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Friedapeak 1916
- Elsiepeak 1918
- Vevapeak 1922
- Henriettepeak 1915
- Estapeak 1920
- Albertinepeak 1918
- Leontinepeak 1918
- Ednapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.