Elvis, my uncle

The Social Security administration informs us that the name Elvis has dropped from the top 1,000 boys’ names for the first time since 1954. (link) The immediate post-war years were actually a bit of an anomaly in that respect. The SSA database shows that name ranking somewhere in the top 1,000 from 1909 through 1947 reaching a high at number 623 in 1922. When I was a small boy I would let people know that Elvis was my uncle whenever his name was mentioned. More precisely, he was my mother’s uncle, my grandfather’s youngest brother. At some point I caught on that the Uncle Elvis I saw at family reunions was not the same as that Presley fellow that everyone else thought that particular name referred to.