Eilan
Eilan was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,050 among boys’ names; 268 Americans have been recorded with it since 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eilan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eilan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eilan is “a male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eilan?
#3,050 among boys’ names, 2025
Eilan rose from #7,641 in 2015 to #3,050 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 23.4 per million.
53 babies in 2024, the peak
Eilan peaked in 2024, when 53 boys were given it, #2,536 among boys’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,050 | 23.4 |
| 2024 | 53 | #2,536 | 30.8 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,188 | 22.2 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,598 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,813 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,053 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,788 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,443 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,077 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,332 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,641 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,008 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,678 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,805 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,227 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,806 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,092 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eilan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eilan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eilan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eilan, and how old are they?
An estimated 266 Americans named Eilan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,351 babies since 1880, Eilan is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 2,758 babies (1.5%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eilan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eilan and names like it
- Compare Eilan and ElianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEilan peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eilan since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Eilan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eilan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.