Elif

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Turkish

Meaning

Elif is a name that is most commonly given to females in Turkey, but is also popular in other countries such as the Netherlands. In Greece, it is associated with the name Nefeli. It originates from the Arabic word for the first letter of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.

From Wikipedia

Elif first appears in the data in 1996 and has been recorded in 21 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2015 with 83 babies (rank #518 that year). It was not in the 2024 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Elif

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

807
Total babies (all years)
21
Years in the data
83
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
199619#1,042
199717#1,141
199815#1,276
199921#992
200024#908
200121#1,004
200221#1,043
200319#1,186
200421#1,122
200525#1,019
200641#758
200737#857
200844#782
200944#800
201038#914
201164#631
201264#649
201349#790
201467#609
201583#518
201673#577