Elam — #2230 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Elam

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,873 babies named Elam between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elam currently holds the #2230 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 144 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elam performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 930 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Elam shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 1,009 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Elam in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elam 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 2,873 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.