Elam

Where Elam comes from

Elam hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1818
    Elam Greeley born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1898
    Peak, #744
    9 babies named Elam — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1984
    Elam Rotem born
    composer, singer and harpsichordist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Elam Rotem · composer, singer and harpsichordist, born 1984
  • Elam Greeley · American politician, 1818–1882
  • Elam J. Anderson · academic administrator, 1890–1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.