Elkin
- #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 1922 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 344since 1914
Elkin over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Elkin has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
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| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
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| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
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| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
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| 1935 | #3,645 | 5 |
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| 1922 | #3,014 | 9 |
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| 1919 | #4,168 | 5 |
| 1918 | #3,368 | 7 |
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| 1915 | #3,392 | 6 |
| 1914 | #3,264 | 5 |
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First appearance
1914
The first year at least five boys were named Elkin! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1917, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Elkin is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Elkin in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Brand new
- 239 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #6,143)
- 3,425 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #6,143)
Rise & fade · boys
8 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1922 at #3,014 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1923, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 83,309
- Highest: 1 in 83,309 boys born in 2021 were named Elkin (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,014 in 1922, was only 1 in 120,906 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 30.2% of all boys named Elkin (104) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 23 | #3,264 (1914) | #3,548 |
| 1920s | 9 | #3,014 (1922) | #3,014 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,645 (1935) | #3,645 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 20 | #5,101 (1973) | #5,647 |
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 19 | #6,843 (1998) | #7,500 |
| 2000s | 83 | #5,067 (2008) | #8,025 |
| 2010s | 104 | #4,678 (2010) | #7,925 |
| 2020s | 76 | #4,628 (2021) | #5,968 |
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.
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