Elin
Elin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 70 births. Its best rank was 662nd, in 2011.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 700.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2011428 births
- Best rank
- #662in 2011
- Since 1893
- 5,151people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,999 girls have been named Elin in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 428 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 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 61%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 152 boys have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 14 | |
| 1900s | 25 | |
| 1910s | 87 | |
| 1920s | 85 | |
| 1930s | 77 | |
| 1940s | 164 | |
| 1950s | 138 | |
| 1960s | 109 | |
| 1970s | 111 | |
| 1980s | 145 | |
| 1990s | 143 | |
| 2000s | 369 | |
| 2010s | 3,032 | |
| 2020s | 500 |
In 2011, its biggest year
Elin was the 662nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2011 were Sophia, Isabella, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Elin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tenleypeak 2011
- Milaniapeak 2014
- Kinleypeak 2012
- Temperancepeak 2014
- Aleeahpeak 2012
- Khloeepeak 2011
- Khloepeak 2010
- Giulianapeak 2012
Other spellings in the data
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.