Meaning not yet researched.
Elwin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #462 in 1914.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #462 in 1914; #4,907 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elwin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,907 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1914, at #462.
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Elwin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #462 in 1914 · most boys in one year: 147 (1923).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Elwin, making it the 4,907th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,656 places from #6,563 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 13 boys named Elwin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #462, reached in 1914. The most boys given the name in a single year was 147, in 1923. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #856 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elwin in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 6 babies. In all, 5,181 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,321 babies named Elwin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 139 US boys were named Elwin; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elwyn (3,336 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ellwyn 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: Ellwyn (82).
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 Elwin 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 | — | — | 20 | #4,907 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,563 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,021 |
| 2022 | — | — | 18 | #5,270 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,242 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,061 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,640 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #5,850 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,166 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,134 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #7,717 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,309 |
| 2012 | — | — | 14 | #6,091 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,752 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,331 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,235 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,349 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #6,008 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,588 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,891 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,328 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #6,877 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,210 |
| 2001 | — | — | 15 | #4,959 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,459 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,177 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,242 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,745 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,295 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,622 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,606 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,113 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,500 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,370 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,483 |
| 1989 | — | — | 11 | #4,605 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,254 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,393 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,926 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,141 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,777 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,253 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,725 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #2,941 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,103 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,646 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,469 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,452 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,123 |
| 1975 | — | — | 17 | #2,476 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,153 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,075 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,875 |
| 1971 | — | — | 15 | #2,484 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #2,951 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,744 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,617 |
| 1967 | — | — | 20 | #1,774 |
| 1966 | — | — | 19 | #1,772 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #2,011 |
| 1964 | — | — | 26 | #1,555 |
| 1963 | — | — | 26 | #1,552 |
| 1962 | — | — | 27 | #1,527 |
| 1961 | — | — | 39 | #1,267 |
| 1960 | — | — | 29 | #1,494 |
| 1959 | — | — | 36 | #1,308 |
| 1958 | — | — | 29 | #1,456 |
| 1957 | — | — | 41 | #1,226 |
| 1956 | — | — | 47 | #1,110 |
| 1955 | — | — | 45 | #1,108 |
| 1954 | — | — | 60 | #955 |
| 1953 | — | — | 60 | #927 |
| 1952 | — | — | 56 | #956 |
| 1951 | — | — | 45 | #1,075 |
| 1950 | — | — | 64 | #856 |
| 1949 | — | — | 50 | #988 |
| 1948 | — | — | 60 | #881 |
| 1947 | — | — | 50 | #1,016 |
| 1946 | — | — | 46 | #1,005 |
| 1945 | — | — | 68 | #745 |
| 1944 | — | — | 55 | #855 |
| 1943 | — | — | 70 | #783 |
| 1942 | — | — | 72 | #756 |
| 1941 | — | — | 68 | #753 |
| 1940 | — | — | 64 | #775 |
| 1939 | — | — | 60 | #788 |
| 1938 | — | — | 84 | #653 |
| 1937 | — | — | 69 | #733 |
| 1936 | — | — | 72 | #700 |
| 1935 | — | — | 79 | #670 |
| 1934 | — | — | 85 | #655 |
| 1933 | — | — | 74 | #698 |
| 1932 | — | — | 103 | #584 |
| 1931 | — | — | 106 | #572 |
| 1930 | — | — | 88 | #665 |
| 1929 | — | — | 109 | #573 |
| 1928 | — | — | 118 | #562 |
| 1927 | — | — | 119 | #565 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,075 | 145 | #503 |
| 1925 | — | — | 129 | #540 |
| 1924 | — | — | 135 | #545 |
| 1923 | — | — | 147 | #502 |
| 1922 | — | — | 141 | #521 |
| 1921 | — | — | 144 | #516 |
| 1920 | — | — | 129 | #540 |
| 1919 | — | — | 104 | #587 |
| 1918 | — | — | 114 | #569 |
| 1917 | — | — | 119 | #532 |
| 1916 | — | — | 102 | #565 |
| 1915 | — | — | 124 | #498 |
| 1914 | — | — | 109 | #462 |
| 1913 | — | — | 61 | #554 |
| 1912 | — | — | 57 | #522 |
| 1911 | — | — | 24 | #630 |
| 1910 | — | — | 16 | #763 |
| 1909 | — | — | 12 | #859 |
| 1908 | — | — | 22 | #543 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #890 |
| 1906 | — | — | 15 | #625 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #945 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #998 |
| 1903 | — | — | 8 | #861 |
| 1902 | — | — | 7 | #958 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #795 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #859 |
| 1899 | — | — | 7 | #882 |
| 1898 | — | — | 11 | #675 |
| 1897 | — | — | 11 | #660 |
| 1895 | — | — | 8 | #816 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #889 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #997 |
| 1891 | — | — | 10 | #613 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,050 |
| 1889 | — | — | 10 | #638 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #770 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #772 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,015 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #939 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #870 |
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).