Elva
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 18 babies a year in England and Wales.
Elva by the numbers
In 2025, 18 babies in England and Wales were named Elva. In the US, 48 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 789 babies in 1918, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Elva
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Elva. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Ellaall, completely; fairy maiden8,020 in the US (2017)
- Evalife; form of Eve758 in England and Wales (2025)
- Elsanoble; form of Elisabeth424 in the US (2017)
- Eliamy god is Yahweh; a form of Elijah255 in the US (2017)
- Elmanoble protector; a form of elmer or wilhelmina31 in England and Wales (2025)
- Elviawhite, noble; a form of Alva27 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Elva
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