Elmer

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: Dutch

Meaning

Elmer is a name of Germanic British origin. The given name originated as a surname, a medieval variant of the given name Aylmer, derived from Old English รฆรพel and mรฆr.

From Wikipedia

Elmer first appears in the data in 1954 and has been recorded in 60 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1985 with 34 babies (rank #354 that year). In 2017 it was given to 1 boys (rank #51). The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Elmer

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Elmer yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

586
Total babies (all years)
60
Years in the data
34
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19543#9
19553#637
19564#646
19574#664
19583#729
19593#738
19605#646
19615#667
19622#857
19632#868
19644#727
19654#745
19667#646
19675#721
19684#801
196912#569
19705#779
19714#837
19725#795
19738#657
197419#443
197515#493
197623#401
197718#448
197813#551
197924#398
198026#397
198131#377
198228#385
198323#422
198419#474
198534#354
198624#448
198718#529
198816#564
198915#590
199021#527
199117#588
199210#715
19935#913
19945#939
19954#1,017
19966#881
19976#896
19985#963
19999#792
20007#871
20016#939
20027#881
20036#923
20046#916
20054#1,058
20064#1,053
20076#883
20084#1,052
20096#889
20111#1,244
20121#1,217
20151#187
20171#51