Elian
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #147 for boys in 2025, 2,448 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 2,448 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 15,268since 1996
Elian over time
Rank among boys' names. Elian has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #147 | 2,448 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #237 | 1,499 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #235 | 1,487 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #299 | 1,128 |
| 2021 | — | #366 | 890 | |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #355 | 877 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #367 | 872 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #411 | 771 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #568 | 478 |
| 2016 | — | #598 | 450 | |
| 2015 | — | #687 | 365 | |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #700 | 354 |
| 2013 | — | #743 | 312 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #844 | 253 |
| 2011 | — | #974 | 202 | |
| 2010 | — | #793 | 273 | |
| 2009 | — | #861 | 247 | |
| 2008 | — | #822 | 267 | |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #881 | 229 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,000 | 184 |
| 2005 | — | #863 | 213 | |
| 2004 | — | #857 | 207 | |
| 2003 | — | #921 | 179 | |
| 2002 | — | #816 | 206 | |
| 2001 | — | #670 | 271 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #426 | 578 |
| 1999 | — | #3,376 | 23 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Elian! It came in at #9,015, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1998, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Elian is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#411 · 1 in 3,566
- Arizona#502 · 1 in 4,009
- Texas#555 · 1 in 4,650
- Colorado#669 · 1 in 6,057
- California#747 · 1 in 8,966
Best ever in a state: #66 in Arizona, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #411 | 5 | 1 in 3,566 |
| Arizona | #502 | 10 | 1 in 4,009 |
| Texas | #555 | 38 | 1 in 4,650 |
| Colorado | #669 | 5 | 1 in 6,057 |
| California | #747 | 28 | 1 in 8,966 |
| New York | #779 | 15 | 1 in 7,444 |
| Illinois | #801 | 10 | 1 in 7,923 |
| North Carolina | #818 | 6 | 1 in 8,483 |
| Michigan | #892 | 6 | 1 in 9,448 |
| New Jersey | #908 | 5 | 1 in 9,669 |
| Georgia | #1,100 | 5 | 1 in 11,429 |
| Florida | #1,252 | 6 | 1 in 15,576 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Elian
- 90 spots since 2024 (#237 → #147)
- 208 spots since 2020 (#355 → #147)
- 540 spots since 2015 (#687 → #147)
- Biggest jump: 2,950 spots in 2000 (#3,376 → #426)
- Biggest drop: 244 spots in 2001 (#426 → #670)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2025 at #147 (2,448 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 698 boys born in 2025 were named Elian (0.14%)
- 54.6% of all boys named Elian (8,329) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 28 | #3,376 (1999) | #6,196 |
| 2000s | 2,581 | #426 (2000) | #812 |
| 2010s | 4,330 | #367 (2019) | #669 |
| 2020s | 8,329 | #147 (2025) | #273 |
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.
Elian in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 11,035 of them was named Elian, which outranked 92.8% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).