Meaning not yet researched.
Elam: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #762 in 1898.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #762 in 1898; #2,213 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elam in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,213 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1898, at #762.
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Elam: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 boys in 2025. Peak: #762 in 1898 · most boys in one year: 144 (2015).
In 2025, 64 US boys were named Elam, making it the 2,213th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1 place from #2,214 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 65 boys named Elam in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #762, reached in 1898. The most boys given the name in a single year was 144, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,257 in 2015 and #2,051 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elam in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 2,940 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 930 babies named Elam.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 873 US boys were named Elam; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,689 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elam ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #463 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eliam (4,439 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eylem are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eylem (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Elam in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #463 | #437 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 64 | #2,213 |
| 2024 | — | — | 65 | #2,214 |
| 2023 | — | — | 60 | #2,326 |
| 2022 | — | — | 74 | #2,043 |
| 2021 | — | — | 97 | #1,693 |
| 2020 | — | — | 92 | #1,696 |
| 2019 | — | — | 101 | #1,627 |
| 2018 | — | — | 103 | #1,595 |
| 2017 | — | — | 109 | #1,518 |
| 2016 | — | — | 108 | #1,540 |
| 2015 | — | — | 144 | #1,257 |
| 2014 | — | — | 102 | #1,561 |
| 2013 | — | — | 73 | #1,919 |
| 2012 | — | — | 64 | #2,109 |
| 2011 | — | — | 58 | #2,240 |
| 2010 | — | — | 68 | #2,022 |
| 2009 | — | — | 51 | #2,493 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,966 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,832 |
| 2006 | — | — | 34 | #3,174 |
| 2005 | — | — | 35 | #2,972 |
| 2004 | — | — | 28 | #3,389 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,689 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,383 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,256 |
| 2000 | — | — | 34 | #2,690 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,206 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,894 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,640 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,323 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,919 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,639 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,080 |
| 1992 | — | — | 28 | #2,558 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,151 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,891 |
| 1989 | — | — | 19 | #3,126 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,580 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,673 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,177 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,139 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,188 |
| 1983 | — | — | 17 | #2,702 |
| 1982 | — | — | 16 | #2,878 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,086 |
| 1980 | — | — | 19 | #2,564 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,051 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,401 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,682 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,743 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,123 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,851 |
| 1973 | — | — | 15 | #2,538 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,732 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,863 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,131 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,458 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,455 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,670 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,853 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,715 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,913 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,420 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,354 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,160 |
| 1959 | — | — | 12 | #2,457 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,115 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,531 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,848 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,633 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,019 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,770 |
| 1952 | — | — | 14 | #2,101 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,721 |
| 1950 | — | — | 14 | #2,051 |
| 1949 | — | — | 13 | #2,151 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,083 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,279 |
| 1946 | — | — | 17 | #1,779 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,617 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,216 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,006 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,012 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,933 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,109 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,201 |
| 1937 | — | — | 14 | #1,929 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,092 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,584 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,063 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,919 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,025 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,833 |
| 1929 | — | — | 20 | #1,690 |
| 1928 | — | — | 20 | #1,724 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,760 |
| 1926 | — | — | 21 | #1,674 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #2,991 |
| 1924 | — | — | 15 | #2,155 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,148 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,085 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,413 |
| 1920 | — | — | 22 | #1,659 |
| 1919 | — | — | 15 | #2,088 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,094 |
| 1917 | — | — | 18 | #1,767 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,304 |
| 1915 | — | — | 17 | #1,725 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,808 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,947 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,779 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,428 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,287 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,171 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,096 |
| 1898 | — | — | 9 | #762 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,085 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #876 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #847 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,007 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #824 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #975 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #847 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).