Elimelech
Elimelech was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,202 among boys’ names; 1,140 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Elimelech and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elimelech by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elimelech?
#3,202 among boys’ names, 2025
Elimelech fell from #2,874 in 2015 to #3,202 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 21.4 to 21.7 per million.
48 babies in 2024, the peak
Elimelech peaked in 2024, when 48 boys were given it, #2,724 among boys’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,202 | 21.7 |
| 2024 | 48 | #2,724 | 27.9 |
| 2023 | 34 | #3,436 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,837 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,317 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,669 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 43 | #2,869 | 24.0 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,390 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,801 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,179 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,874 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,395 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 38 | #2,968 | 20.1 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,319 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,454 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,392 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,853 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,124 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,324 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,246 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,718 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,096 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,212 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,075 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,534 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,335 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,035 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,803 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,636 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,444 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,594 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,598 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,038 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,346 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,861 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,102 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,865 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,978 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,042 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,167 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,114 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,297 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,081 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,929 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,550 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,997 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,504 | 6.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,131 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elimelech a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elimelech has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elimelech: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elimelech, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,140 Americans ever recorded as Elimelech. The median Elimelech alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 789 people named Elimelech (4 women and girls, 785 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 905 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 24 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 164 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 455 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 476 |
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 Elimelech born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 26 | #589 | 10.8× |
Where Elimelech is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elimelech is most over-represented in New York: since 1967 it was given 10.8 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 Elimelech with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elimelech
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 Elimelech and names like it
- Compare Elimelech and FarhanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elimelech since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Elimelech.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elimelech alive today were born 2013-2025.
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