Elan — #2641 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Elan

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,478 babies named Elan between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elan currently holds the #2641 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 136 babies received it in a single year. Elan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 793 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,233 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Elan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 636 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Elan in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elan 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 3,478 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.