Elan
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
Given to boys 81.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 136 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,533since 1963
Elan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #1,917 | 81 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,710 | 95 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #1,922 | 76 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #1,507 | 113 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 | #1,489 | 116 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #1,365 | 130 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #1,399 | 125 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,453 | 116 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #1,329 | 131 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 | #1,340 | 127 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 | #1,308 | 131 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 | #1,264 | 136 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #1,492 | 109 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,688 | 93 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | #1,736 | 87 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #1,488 | 107 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #1,823 | 75 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #1,725 | 77 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | #1,815 | 68 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #1,466 | 89 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #1,708 | 68 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #1,591 | 75 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 | #1,895 | 55 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #1,932 | 50 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #1,899 | 51 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #1,859 | 50 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #1,872 | 48 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #1,753 | 50 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 | #2,209 | 35 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #1,820 | 45 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | #2,344 | 30 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | #1,968 | 38 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 | #1,567 | 51 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #1,501 | 50 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 | #1,506 | 47 |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 | #1,419 | 49 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | #2,171 | 25 |
| 1984 | #2,340 | 41 | #1,458 | 43 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #1,711 | 33 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | #1,596 | 38 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #1,865 | 30 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 | #1,965 | 28 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #1,598 | 36 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #1,913 | 26 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #1,858 | 27 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #2,417 | 18 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #2,126 | 19 |
| 1970 | #3,872 | 15 | #1,989 | 20 |
| 1969 | #3,102 | 19 | #2,861 | 10 |
| 1968 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Elan! It came in at #4,048, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Elan is popular in 1963
No state had 5 or more boys named Elan in 1963, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Elan
- 157 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,480)
- 558 spots since 2020 (#1,922 → #2,480)
- 1,027 spots since 2015 (#1,453 → #2,480)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2011 at #1,264 (136 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,965 boys born in 2011 were named Elan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.9% of all boys named Elan (1,234) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1969, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 50 | #2,200 (1968) | #3,168 |
| 1970s | 201 | #1,598 (1979) | #2,290 |
| 1980s | 394 | #1,419 (1986) | #1,676 |
| 1990s | 441 | #1,753 (1994) | #1,957 |
| 2000s | 794 | #1,466 (2003) | #1,694 |
| 2010s | 1,234 | #1,264 (2011) | #1,395 |
| 2020s | 419 | #1,710 (2021) | #2,152 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Elan in 1963
Top boys' names in 1963
More about 1963
boys
2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 406,216 of them was named Elan, which outranked 12.4% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 573 names at #4,048; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.