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.
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 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 208,508 of them was named Elan, which outranked 39.3% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,804Yuki9
- #6,804Yury9
- #6,804Zarina9
- #7,409Elan8
- #7,409Aaren8
- #7,409Aarin8
- #7,409Abigael8
- #8,128Aarika7
- #8,128Abbigale7
- #8,128Abbye7
Tied with 718 names at #7,409; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 59,706 of them was named Elan, which outranked 74.4% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,811Tremain31
- #1,811Vasilios31
- #1,811Veronica31
- #1,865Elan30
- #1,865Arian30
- #1,865Brenda30
- #1,865Damen30
- #1,899Audie29
- #1,899Blaise29
- #1,899Brantley29
Tied with 33 names at #1,865; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.