Meaning not yet researched.
Elton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #278 in 1915.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #278 in 1915; #2,313 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,313 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1915, at #278.
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Elton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 boys in 2025. Peak: #278 in 1915 · most boys in one year: 394 (1920).
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Elton, making it the 2,313th most common boys’ name of the year, down 231 places from #2,082 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 72 boys named Elton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #278, reached in 1915. The most boys given the name in a single year was 394, in 1920. For comparison, it was #2,197 in 2015 and #458 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elton in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 21,553 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,618 babies named Elton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 745 US boys were named Elton; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 111. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,468 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elton ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #841 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Helton and Elthan 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Helton (72), Elthan (10).
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 Elton 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #841 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,622 | #1,795 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,359 | #2,498 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 60 | #2,313 |
| 2024 | — | — | 72 | #2,082 |
| 2023 | — | — | 69 | #2,114 |
| 2022 | — | — | 80 | #1,941 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,155 | 111 | #1,569 |
| 2020 | — | — | 90 | #1,723 |
| 2019 | — | — | 80 | #1,872 |
| 2018 | — | — | 73 | #2,000 |
| 2017 | — | — | 51 | #2,501 |
| 2016 | — | — | 59 | #2,260 |
| 2015 | — | — | 62 | #2,197 |
| 2014 | — | — | 66 | #2,101 |
| 2013 | — | — | 45 | #2,634 |
| 2012 | — | — | 55 | #2,338 |
| 2011 | — | — | 61 | #2,155 |
| 2010 | — | — | 56 | #2,295 |
| 2009 | — | — | 64 | #2,126 |
| 2008 | — | — | 64 | #2,131 |
| 2007 | — | — | 57 | #2,286 |
| 2006 | — | — | 68 | #1,976 |
| 2005 | — | — | 65 | #1,951 |
| 2004 | — | — | 81 | #1,611 |
| 2003 | — | — | 51 | #2,161 |
| 2002 | — | — | 76 | #1,598 |
| 2001 | — | — | 72 | #1,636 |
| 2000 | — | — | 96 | #1,336 |
| 1999 | — | — | 68 | #1,596 |
| 1998 | — | — | 73 | #1,504 |
| 1997 | — | — | 82 | #1,356 |
| 1996 | — | — | 79 | #1,362 |
| 1995 | — | — | 69 | #1,436 |
| 1994 | — | — | 64 | #1,479 |
| 1993 | — | — | 86 | #1,219 |
| 1992 | — | — | 89 | #1,181 |
| 1991 | — | — | 81 | #1,238 |
| 1990 | — | — | 117 | #965 |
| 1989 | — | — | 90 | #1,117 |
| 1988 | — | — | 87 | #1,066 |
| 1987 | — | — | 88 | #1,012 |
| 1986 | — | — | 89 | #972 |
| 1985 | — | — | 97 | #924 |
| 1984 | — | — | 118 | #805 |
| 1983 | — | — | 115 | #813 |
| 1982 | — | — | 138 | #752 |
| 1981 | — | — | 123 | #784 |
| 1980 | — | — | 132 | #763 |
| 1979 | — | — | 126 | #773 |
| 1978 | — | — | 154 | #674 |
| 1977 | — | — | 179 | #629 |
| 1976 | — | — | 217 | #546 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,289 | 285 | #474 |
| 1974 | — | — | 250 | #503 |
| 1973 | — | — | 190 | #575 |
| 1972 | — | — | 166 | #612 |
| 1971 | — | — | 153 | #670 |
| 1970 | — | — | 124 | #740 |
| 1969 | — | — | 88 | #825 |
| 1968 | — | — | 109 | #721 |
| 1967 | — | — | 115 | #694 |
| 1966 | — | — | 131 | #648 |
| 1965 | — | — | 173 | #581 |
| 1964 | — | — | 176 | #597 |
| 1963 | — | — | 176 | #592 |
| 1962 | — | — | 214 | #542 |
| 1961 | — | — | 209 | #546 |
| 1960 | — | — | 239 | #513 |
| 1959 | — | — | 263 | #483 |
| 1958 | — | — | 281 | #473 |
| 1957 | — | — | 307 | #439 |
| 1956 | — | — | 285 | #448 |
| 1955 | — | — | 280 | #443 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,804 | 294 | #418 |
| 1953 | — | — | 292 | #411 |
| 1952 | — | — | 240 | #456 |
| 1951 | — | — | 273 | #412 |
| 1950 | — | — | 209 | #458 |
| 1949 | — | — | 232 | #438 |
| 1948 | — | — | 231 | #440 |
| 1947 | — | — | 234 | #439 |
| 1946 | — | — | 222 | #427 |
| 1945 | — | — | 220 | #406 |
| 1944 | — | — | 257 | #374 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,877 | 257 | #382 |
| 1942 | — | — | 215 | #420 |
| 1941 | — | — | 216 | #393 |
| 1940 | — | — | 237 | #371 |
| 1939 | — | — | 234 | #373 |
| 1938 | — | — | 250 | #351 |
| 1937 | — | — | 234 | #350 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,397 | 251 | #342 |
| 1935 | — | — | 260 | #340 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,955 | 311 | #308 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,951 | 291 | #316 |
| 1932 | — | — | 297 | #320 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,015 | 283 | #327 |
| 1930 | — | — | 304 | #317 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,788 | 302 | #317 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,878 | 330 | #306 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,463 | 386 | #290 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,932 | 324 | #315 |
| 1925 | — | — | 324 | #316 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,128 | 381 | #294 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,547 | 353 | #298 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,611 | 356 | #303 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,675 | 385 | #285 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,500 | 394 | #281 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,422 | 330 | #300 |
| 1918 | — | — | 318 | #318 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,950 | 320 | #291 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,352 | 322 | #286 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,215 | 317 | #278 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,313 | 236 | #290 |
| 1913 | — | — | 154 | #329 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,210 | 134 | #321 |
| 1911 | — | — | 65 | #338 |
| 1910 | — | — | 46 | #384 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,399 | 61 | #291 |
| 1908 | — | — | 48 | #320 |
| 1907 | — | — | 37 | #367 |
| 1906 | — | — | 35 | #351 |
| 1905 | — | — | 37 | #331 |
| 1904 | — | — | 28 | #393 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,658 | 38 | #306 |
| 1902 | — | — | 26 | #393 |
| 1901 | — | — | 19 | #438 |
| 1900 | — | — | 39 | #351 |
| 1899 | — | — | 21 | #405 |
| 1898 | — | — | 20 | #457 |
| 1897 | — | — | 16 | #503 |
| 1896 | — | — | 17 | #508 |
| 1895 | — | — | 16 | #510 |
| 1894 | — | — | 16 | #505 |
| 1893 | — | — | 23 | #373 |
| 1892 | — | — | 18 | #465 |
| 1891 | — | — | 13 | #502 |
| 1890 | — | — | 16 | #465 |
| 1889 | — | — | 19 | #419 |
| 1888 | — | — | 16 | #488 |
| 1887 | — | — | 20 | #369 |
| 1886 | — | — | 12 | #555 |
| 1884 | — | — | 14 | #509 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #749 |
| 1882 | — | — | 20 | #402 |
| 1881 | — | — | 14 | #468 |
| 1880 | — | — | 7 | #769 |
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).