Meaning not yet researched.
Elwyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #595 in 1912.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #595 in 1912; #6,563 in 2025. About 72% of babies named Elwyn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,563 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1912, at #595.
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Elwyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #595 in 1912 · most boys in one year: 104 (1924).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Elwyn, making it the 6,563rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,367 places from #7,930 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 10 boys named Elwyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #595, reached in 1912. The most boys given the name in a single year was 104, in 1924. For comparison, it was #11,086 in 2015 and #1,582 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Elwyn, making it the 15,587th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #3,110, reached in 1912. The most girls given the name in a single year was 7, in 2021. For comparison, it was #17,237 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elwyn in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 5 babies. In all, 3,336 US babies have been given the name, 3.1% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 917 babies named Elwyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 120 US boys were named Elwyn; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Elwin (5,181 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 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 Elwyn 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 | 5 | #15,587 | 13 | #6,563 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #7,930 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,887 | 23 | #4,498 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,088 | 7 | #10,119 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,581 | 14 | #6,114 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,308 | 13 | #6,526 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,449 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,126 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,456 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,237 | 6 | #11,086 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,348 | — | — |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,248 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #9,983 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #7,872 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,522 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,214 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,634 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,462 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,249 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,047 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,603 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,526 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,264 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,357 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,619 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,645 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,556 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,561 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,272 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,151 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,124 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,005 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,683 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,023 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,211 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #3,972 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,837 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,654 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,840 |
| 1965 | — | — | 22 | #1,686 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,717 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,233 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,422 |
| 1961 | — | — | 15 | #2,171 |
| 1960 | — | — | 15 | #2,157 |
| 1959 | — | — | 19 | #1,880 |
| 1958 | — | — | 24 | #1,607 |
| 1957 | — | — | 23 | #1,687 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,226 | 15 | #2,116 |
| 1955 | — | — | 31 | #1,382 |
| 1954 | — | — | 32 | #1,338 |
| 1953 | — | — | 25 | #1,526 |
| 1952 | — | — | 40 | #1,173 |
| 1951 | — | — | 39 | #1,157 |
| 1950 | — | — | 22 | #1,582 |
| 1949 | — | — | 33 | #1,260 |
| 1948 | — | — | 50 | #993 |
| 1947 | — | — | 34 | #1,260 |
| 1946 | — | — | 39 | #1,116 |
| 1945 | — | — | 39 | #1,020 |
| 1944 | — | — | 27 | #1,291 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,918 | 52 | #925 |
| 1942 | — | — | 63 | #814 |
| 1941 | — | — | 44 | #962 |
| 1940 | — | — | 41 | #1,011 |
| 1939 | — | — | 49 | #893 |
| 1938 | — | — | 52 | #862 |
| 1937 | — | — | 44 | #946 |
| 1936 | — | — | 53 | #837 |
| 1935 | — | — | 57 | #823 |
| 1934 | — | — | 69 | #735 |
| 1933 | — | — | 76 | #680 |
| 1932 | — | — | 71 | #740 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,528 | 69 | #744 |
| 1930 | — | — | 77 | #714 |
| 1929 | — | — | 79 | #696 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,935 | 73 | #755 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,024 | 90 | #679 |
| 1926 | — | — | 82 | #702 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,206 | 94 | #660 |
| 1924 | — | — | 104 | #629 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,177 | 96 | #654 |
| 1922 | — | — | 89 | #693 |
| 1921 | — | — | 90 | #684 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,107 | 93 | #663 |
| 1919 | — | — | 75 | #740 |
| 1918 | — | — | 88 | #659 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,828 | 72 | #732 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,633 | 56 | #835 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,493 | 73 | #680 |
| 1914 | — | — | 54 | #703 |
| 1913 | — | — | 47 | #655 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,110 | 47 | #595 |
| 1911 | — | — | 11 | #1,066 |
| 1910 | — | — | 10 | #1,064 |
| 1909 | — | — | 11 | #913 |
| 1908 | — | — | 11 | #846 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,042 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,293 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #911 |
| 1903 | — | — | 8 | #862 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,049 |
| 1899 | — | — | 7 | #883 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #910 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,145 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #912 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,089 |
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).