Elan
Elan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 50 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 500.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2011136 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1963
- 4,271people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,478 boys have been named Elan in the United States since 1963, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 136 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 35%.
Elan is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are girls (793), most of them born around 1984.
By decade
In 2011, its biggest year
Elan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2011 were Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden and Noah. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Elan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Brighampeak 2011
- Brampeak 2016
- Eamonpeak 2016
- Arienpeak 2013
- Bronsonpeak 2015
- Ahmedpeak 2015
- Olivierpeak 2011
- Keelanpeak 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.