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 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#464 · 1 in 3,327
- Arizona#529 · 1 in 4,119
- Massachusetts#596 · 1 in 5,485
- California#779 · 1 in 8,976
- Illinois#921 · 1 in 8,554
Best ever in a state: #66 in Arizona, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #464 | 56 | 1 in 3,327 |
| Arizona | #529 | 11 | 1 in 4,119 |
| Massachusetts | #596 | 6 | 1 in 5,485 |
| California | #779 | 29 | 1 in 8,976 |
| Illinois | #921 | 9 | 1 in 8,554 |
| Georgia | #1,096 | 6 | 1 in 10,404 |
| Ohio | #1,096 | 5 | 1 in 13,289 |
| New York | #1,171 | 9 | 1 in 12,171 |
| Florida | #1,172 | 8 | 1 in 12,919 |
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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 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 380,242 of them was named Elian, which outranked 14.4% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,896 names at #17,168; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 11,170 of them was named Elian, which outranked 92.9% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).