El — boys' name

What the Data Says About El

The Social Security Administration has registered 246 babies named El between 1915 and 2023, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, El currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 11 babies received it in a single year. El is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 38 additional births since 1928.

Decade-level aggregation shows that El performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 40 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, El shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list El in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for El in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 246 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.