Elam
#2,207 for boys in 2025, 64 births
- Peak · boys
- 1898 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,940since 1880
Elam over time
Rank among boys' names. Elam has never cracked the top 700 here.
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 | #2,207 | 64 |
| 2024 | #2,210 | 65 |
| 2023 | #2,315 | 60 |
| 2022 | #2,039 | 74 |
| 2021 | #1,688 | 97 |
| 2020 | #1,694 | 92 |
| 2019 | #1,624 | 101 |
| 2018 | #1,593 | 103 |
| 2017 | #1,518 | 109 |
| 2016 | #1,539 | 108 |
| 2015 | #1,252 | 144 |
| 2014 | #1,559 | 102 |
| 2013 | #1,915 | 73 |
| 2012 | #2,104 | 64 |
| 2011 | #2,232 | 58 |
| 2010 | #2,010 | 68 |
| 2009 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 2008 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2007 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2006 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #2,674 | 37 |
| 2002 | #3,349 | 26 |
| 2001 | #3,228 | 27 |
| 2000 | #2,674 | 34 |
| 1999 | #3,182 | 25 |
| 1998 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | #3,601 | 19 |
| 1996 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #2,865 | 22 |
| 1989 | #3,094 | 19 |
| 1988 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #3,131 | 15 |
| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #2,676 | 17 |
| 1982 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #2,375 | 19 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #2,513 | 15 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #3,071 | 10 |
| 1969 | #2,415 | 13 |
| 1968 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #2,665 | 10 |
| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | #2,364 | 12 |
| 1961 | #2,322 | 13 |
| 1960 | #3,077 | 8 |
| 1959 | #2,414 | 12 |
| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #2,494 | 11 |
| 1956 | #2,798 | 9 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #2,942 | 8 |
| 1953 | #2,709 | 9 |
| 1952 | #2,073 | 14 |
| 1951 | #2,662 | 9 |
| 1950 | #2,019 | 14 |
| 1949 | #2,123 | 13 |
| 1948 | #3,010 | 7 |
| 1947 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1946 | #1,759 | 17 |
| 1945 | #2,574 | 8 |
| 1944 | #3,109 | 6 |
| 1943 | #1,986 | 14 |
| 1942 | #2,940 | 7 |
| 1941 | #1,903 | 14 |
| 1940 | #2,081 | 12 |
| 1939 | #2,159 | 11 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,913 | 14 |
| 1936 | #2,062 | 12 |
| 1935 | #2,529 | 9 |
| 1934 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,849 | 8 |
| 1931 | #2,003 | 14 |
| 1930 | #2,781 | 9 |
| 1929 | #1,672 | 20 |
| 1928 | #1,707 | 20 |
| 1927 | #2,703 | 10 |
| 1926 | #1,661 | 21 |
| 1925 | #2,936 | 9 |
| 1924 | #2,132 | 15 |
| 1923 | #2,123 | 15 |
| 1922 | #3,014 | 9 |
| 1921 | #2,376 | 13 |
| 1920 | #1,642 | 22 |
| 1919 | #2,063 | 15 |
| 1918 | #2,073 | 15 |
| 1917 | #1,755 | 18 |
| 1916 | #2,259 | 12 |
| 1915 | #1,707 | 17 |
| 1914 | #1,772 | 13 |
| 1913 | #2,821 | 5 |
| 1912 | #1,746 | 9 |
| 1911 | #1,387 | 7 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,233 | 5 |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,130 | 5 |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,058 | 5 |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #744 | 9 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | #1,035 | 5 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #841 | 6 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #819 | 6 |
| 1886 | #959 | 5 |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #799 | 6 |
| 1882 | #943 | 5 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #809 | 6 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Elam was already there! It came in at #809, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1882, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Elam is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#360 · 1 in 1,744
- Pennsylvania#528 · 1 in 3,369
- North Carolina#905 · 1 in 7,166
- Texas#1,555 · 1 in 17,488
- California#2,032 · 1 in 29,502
Best ever in a state: #329 in Pennsylvania, 1929.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #360 | 12 | 1 in 1,744 |
| Pennsylvania | #528 | 17 | 1 in 3,369 |
| North Carolina | #905 | 7 | 1 in 7,166 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 10 | 1 in 17,488 |
| California | #2,032 | 7 | 1 in 29,502 |
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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 Elam
- 3 spots since 2024 (#2,210 → #2,207)
- 513 spots since 2020 (#1,694 → #2,207)
- 955 spots since 2015 (#1,252 → #2,207)
- Biggest jump: 144 spots in 1883 (#943 → #799)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1898 at #744 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1899, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1882–1883
- Highest: 1 in 13,311 boys born in 2015 were named Elam (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,689 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #744 in 1898, was only 1 in 13,632 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.6% of all boys named Elam (930) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | #799 (1883) | #866 |
| 1890s | 20 | #744 (1898) | #873 |
| 1900s | 15 | #1,058 (1901) | #1,140 |
| 1910s | 111 | #1,387 (1911) | #1,954 |
| 1920s | 154 | #1,642 (1920) | #2,197 |
| 1930s | 84 | #1,913 (1937) | #2,409 |
| 1940s | 110 | #1,759 (1946) | #2,374 |
| 1950s | 101 | #2,019 (1950) | #2,661 |
| 1960s | 87 | #2,322 (1961) | #2,823 |
| 1970s | 128 | #2,375 (1978) | #2,960 |
| 1980s | 157 | #2,159 (1984) | #3,161 |
| 1990s | 209 | #2,532 (1992) | #3,292 |
| 2000s | 354 | #2,486 (2009) | #2,965 |
| 2010s | 930 | #1,252 (2015) | #1,735 |
| 2020s | 452 | #1,688 (2021) | #2,026 |
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.
Elam in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 17,633 of them was named Elam, which outranked 88.7% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,584Zayan105
- #1,591Auden104
- #1,591Shaurya104
- #1,593Elam103
- #1,593Arnold103
- #1,593Asahd103
- #1,593Ewan103
- #1,606Avian102
- #1,606Britton102
- #1,606Clifton102
Tied with 12 names at #1,593; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.