Elim — #4265 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Elim

The Social Security Administration has registered 316 babies named Elim between 2000 and 2024, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Elim currently holds the #4265 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Elim is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 200 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elim performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 162 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Elim shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Elim in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elim 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 316 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.