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How popular is the name Elif?
Births per year, rank history and how many Elifs are alive today.
Elif (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 684th in 2025 with 54 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2015, when 83 babies were given the name, the 517th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 812 in 2021 before climbing back to the 684th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Elif you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Elifs born in England and Wales are between 7 and 20, and there are at least 1,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Elif - on average, only one in every 225 such rooms contains a Elif.
How many babies are named Elif each year?
Where does Elif rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Elif most popular?
Elif peaked in 2015, when 83 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Elif?
At least 1,400 people named Elif born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Elif?
Most living Elifs are between 7 and 20; the most common age is about 10.
Is Elif becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.