Meaning not yet researched.
Elan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,266 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,266 in 2011; #2,490 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Elan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,490 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,266.
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Elan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,266 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 136 (2011).
In 2025, 54 US boys were named Elan, making it the 2,490th most common boys’ name of the year, up 154 places from #2,644 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 50 boys named Elan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,266, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 136. For comparison, it was #1,455 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Elan, making it the 15,556th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,173 places from #11,383 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 8 girls named Elan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,350, reached in 1984. That year also had the most girls given the name: 41. For comparison, it was #6,806 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elan in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 4,331 US babies have been given the name, 18% of them girls and 82% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,412 babies named Elan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 903 US boys were named Elan; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 130. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,631 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elan ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,389 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alan (364,389 babies since 1880), Elon (3,633 babies since 1880), Ilan (3,290 babies since 1880) and Ellen (276,029 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Iylan 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: Iylan (17).
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 Elan 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,389 | #1,579 |
| New York | 7 | #1,458 | #966 |
| California | 8 | #1,874 | #898 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,680 | #1,389 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,556 | 54 | #2,490 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,383 | 50 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,804 | 63 | #2,252 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,893 | 81 | #1,923 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,403 | 95 | #1,712 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,909 | 76 | #1,927 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,728 | 113 | #1,510 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,886 | 116 | #1,494 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,940 | 130 | #1,367 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,001 | 125 | #1,404 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,806 | 116 | #1,455 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,793 | 131 | #1,330 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,703 | 127 | #1,340 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,965 | 131 | #1,310 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,530 | 136 | #1,266 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,290 | 109 | #1,496 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,123 | 93 | #1,692 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,196 | 87 | #1,742 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,720 | 107 | #1,489 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,739 | 75 | #1,828 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,357 | 77 | #1,728 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,571 | 68 | #1,820 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,879 | 89 | #1,469 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,803 | 68 | #1,709 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,323 | 75 | #1,594 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,835 | 55 | #1,901 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,283 | 50 | #1,941 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,196 | 51 | #1,908 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,926 | 50 | #1,864 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,342 | 48 | #1,879 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,050 | 44 | #1,928 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,317 | 50 | #1,758 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,876 | 35 | #2,228 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,758 | 45 | #1,823 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,742 | 30 | #2,359 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,919 | 38 | #1,982 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,722 | 51 | #1,573 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,282 | 50 | #1,506 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,523 | 47 | #1,512 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,670 | 49 | #1,422 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,690 | 25 | #2,187 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,350 | 43 | #1,465 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,865 | 33 | #1,723 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,293 | 38 | #1,603 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,599 | 30 | #1,868 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,574 | 28 | #1,976 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,852 | 36 | #1,603 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,660 | 26 | #1,931 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,610 | 27 | #1,873 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,516 | 18 | #2,448 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,282 | 16 | #2,563 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,889 | 17 | #2,386 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,864 | 9 | #3,525 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,748 | 13 | #2,717 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,168 | 19 | #2,153 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,921 | 20 | #2,014 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,125 | 10 | #2,922 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,231 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,833 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,647 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,739 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,221 |
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).