Boys' name · since 2021
Elessar
Elessar has 18 recorded births since 2021 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #29,665 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #10,557 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 18
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elessar currently ranks #10557 among boys' names in America, with 18 babies recorded since 2021.
Elessar has 18 recorded births among boys since 2021, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10557 as of the latest data, more common than 24% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2021 to 2025.
- #29,665 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #10,557 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 18 born since 2021
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Elessar ranks #29,665 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,557 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 18 born since 2021, peaking in the 2020s.
- #29,665 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #10,557 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 18
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Elessar's 18 recorded births place it above 34.17% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Elessar compares
18 7th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Elessar's all-time total is 95% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Elessar | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 18 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 34 | 22,252 |
Elessar's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Elessar splits its recorded history at 2022: 67% of all births land in the more recent half, 33% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2022 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Elessar popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
Elessar by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (18 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Elessar's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Elessar births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
18 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 18 births (100% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2021–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Elessar draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.