Elian
Elian was given to 2,448 boys in 2025, #147 among boys’ names; 15,380 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,200 Americans named Elian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 12.
Elian was given to 949 more boys in 2025 than in 2024, the #7 gain in babies among boys’ names.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elian is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elian?
#147 among boys’ names, 2025
Elian rose from #688 in 2015 to #147 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.19 to 1.4 per 1,000.
2,457 babies in 2025, the peak
Elian peaked in 2025, when 2,457 babies were given it (2,448 boys, #147 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,499 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,448 | #147 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 1,499 | #237 | 0.87 |
| 2023 | 1,487 | #235 | 0.87 |
| 2022 | 1,128 | #299 | 0.65 |
| 2021 | 890 | #366 | 0.51 |
| 2020 | 877 | #355 | 0.51 |
| 2019 | 872 | #367 | 0.49 |
| 2018 | 771 | #411 | 0.42 |
| 2017 | 478 | #569 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 450 | #598 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 365 | #688 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 354 | #700 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 312 | #743 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 253 | #844 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 202 | #976 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 273 | #796 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 247 | #861 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 267 | #822 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 229 | #882 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 184 | #1,000 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 213 | #864 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 207 | #856 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 179 | #920 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 206 | #815 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 271 | #670 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 578 | #426 | 0.29 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,427 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elian has been given almost only to boys: 112 girls in 30 years of records.
Girls and boys named Elian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elian, and how old are they?
15,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,380 Americans ever recorded as Elian. The median Elian alive today is 6 years old; half are between 2 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 6,543 people named Elian (323 women and girls, 6,220 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,168 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 17 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,900 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Elian born?
The states with the most babies named Elian are Texas, California and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 506 | #77 | 2.1× |
| California | 345 | #115 | 1.2× |
| New York | 164 | #109 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 130 | #166 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 106 | #67 | 2.0× |
| New Jersey | 90 | #109 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 80 | #155 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 73 | #161 | 1.0× |
| Colorado | 71 | #95 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 66 | #194 | 0.7× |
Where Elian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elian is most over-represented in Texas: since 1988 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,848 babies since 1880, Elian is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,457 of their 2,849 babies (86%), again the 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 Elian
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 Elian and names like it
- Compare Elian and ElanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElian peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elian since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Elian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.