Meaning not yet researched.
Elin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #662 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #662 in 2011; #3,077 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,077 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #662.
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Elin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 girls in 2025. Peak: #662 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 428 (2011).
In 2025, 53 US girls were named Elin, making it the 3,077th most common girls’ name of the year, down 539 places from #2,538 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 70 girls named Elin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #662, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 428. For comparison, it was #923 in 2015 and #2,371 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elin in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 9 babies. In all, 5,204 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,128 babies named Elin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,425 US girls were named Elin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 267. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,326 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elina (6,193 babies since 1880), Ellen (276,029 babies since 1880), Elaine (263,543 babies since 1880) and Elian (15,380 babies since 1880).
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Swedish and Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Elin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,126 | 9 | #8,499 |
| 2021 | 133 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 2020 | 133 | #1,581 | 11 | #7,158 |
| 2019 | 177 | #1,296 | 14 | #6,188 |
| 2018 | 201 | #1,190 | 7 | #9,979 |
| 2017 | 227 | #1,111 | 7 | #9,997 |
| 2016 | 267 | #991 | 7 | #9,956 |
| 2015 | 297 | #923 | 12 | #6,792 |
| 2014 | 384 | #732 | 9 | #8,333 |
| 2013 | 329 | #817 | 14 | #6,004 |
| 2012 | 336 | #797 | 10 | #7,715 |
| 2011 | 428 | #662 | — | — |
| 2010 | 386 | #726 | 16 | #5,557 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,778 | 5 | #13,113 |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,523 | 5 | #12,595 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,756 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,702 | 6 | #10,354 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,681 | 5 | #11,409 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,478 | 5 | #11,204 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,070 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,713 | 5 | #10,902 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,987 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,164 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,541 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,844 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,052 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,522 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,752 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,760 | 5 | #8,827 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,744 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,415 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,606 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,785 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,916 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,027 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,691 | — | — |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,372 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,356 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,994 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,682 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,296 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,001 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,421 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,246 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,868 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,804 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,807 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,114 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,007 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,153 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,482 | — | — |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,760 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,926 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,324 | — | — |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,959 | — | — |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,450 | — | — |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,509 | — | — |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,368 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,948 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,637 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,664 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,731 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,946 | — | — |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,534 | — | — |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,036 | — | — |
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).