Elam
Elam is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 64 births. Its best rank was 762nd, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 640.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2015144 births
- Best rank
- #762in 1898
- Since 1880
- 2,873people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,873 boys have been named Elam in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 144 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2007, and the 2010s alone account for 32%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elam | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | |
| 1890s | 20 | |
| 1900s | 15 | |
| 1910s | 111 | |
| 1920s | 154 | |
| 1930s | 84 | |
| 1940s | 110 | |
| 1950s | 101 | |
| 1960s | 87 | |
| 1970s | 128 | |
| 1980s | 157 | |
| 1990s | 209 | |
| 2000s | 352 | |
| 2010s | 930 | |
| 2020s | 387 |
In 2015, its biggest year
Elam was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Elam
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ansonpeak 2016
- Princepeak 2019
- Abrampeak 2016
- Ephraimpeak 2017
- Lawsonpeak 2021
- Emersonpeak 2019
- Andersonpeak 2012
- Porterpeak 2015
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.