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Elmer

Pronounced /ˈɛlmɚ/

Rank in 2024
#1,168
Born in 2024
178
Peak year
1918 · #44
Origin
Old English
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 178 boys were named Elmer, about 1 in every 9,637.
  • It peaked in 1918 with 4,373 babies, ranked #44.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 129,416 boys have been named Elmer since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Elmer per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 3.8
    Greatest
  2. 1.5
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 63,307 babies, 3.79 per 1,000. Silent: 30,043 babies, 1.45 per 1,000. Boomers: 12,986 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,907 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,894 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,403 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,903 babies, 0.09 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Medieval variant of the given name Aylmer, from Old English Æþelmǣr, from æþel (“noble”) +‎ mǣre (“famous”).

  • A surname transferred from the given name.
  • A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname in the 19th century U.S.
Origin
Old English
Say it
/ˈɛlmɚ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Elmer, CC BY-SA 4.0.