Elke
2025 SSA
About Elke
Though she has long stood on her own, Elke has many longer cross-cultural connections, to the Dutch/German/Scandinavian Adelheid and Alice and the English Adelaide, as a feminine version of Elkanah and as a Yiddish form of Eleanor.
The name became best known in the U.S. via the Berlin-born Elke Sommer,a popular actress and pin-up girl in the 1960s.
Pronounced EL-kuh.
As of October 2026, Elke ranked #10330 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1250 in 1968, Nameberry popularity #993.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
World rankings
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Elke on lists
Famous Elkes
- Elke Sommer
German actress
- Elke Cordelia Neidhardt
Australian actress
- Elke Clijsters
Belgian tennis player
- Elke Aberle
German actress
Elke in pop culture
- Elke Haien
character in The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm
- Elke Elkberg
Carl's Swedish girlfriend on animated series Jimmy Neutron
- The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species of the Cervidae or deer family in the world
and one of the largest land mammals in North America and eastern Asia.