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Elmo

Pronounced /ˈɛlmoʊ/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1920 · #279
Origin
Italian

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No boys were recorded as Elmo in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 397 babies, ranked #279.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 10,091 boys have been named Elmo since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

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

Greatest: 5,338 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Silent: 2,499 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,280 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 362 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 186 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 44 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 16 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From an Italian contraction of Erasmo, cognate with Erasmus. Also a German short form of Elmar. By folk etymology seen as a short form of Elmer. ==== Proper noun ==== Elmo A male given name from Italian. 1996 Chay Yew, A Language of Their Own, Two Plays, Grove/Atlantic Inc.: MING. About his name. Oscar. Asians always pick out the most curious and most discarded English names from books and TV. Like Cornelius. Elmo. Wellington. A city in Missouri. An unincorporated community in Texas. A town in Utah. An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

  • A male given name from Italian.
Origin
Italian
Say it
/ˈɛlmoʊ/

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

Other spellings

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    Alma

    Rank
    #8,256
    Born '24
    10
    Origin
    Latin
    1880peak 19182024