Elion
Elion was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,492 among boys’ names; 286 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elion?
#2,492 among boys’ names, 2025
Elion rose from #8,979 in 2015 to #2,492 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 31.6 per million.
70 babies in 2024, the peak
Elion peaked in 2024, when 70 boys were given it, #2,122 among boys’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,492 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,122 | 40.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,008 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,466 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,235 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,905 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,395 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,819 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,339 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,081 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #8,979 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,328 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,957 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,820 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,159 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,176 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,075 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,049 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elion has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elion, and how old are they?
An estimated 284 Americans named Elion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 182 people named Elion (5 women and girls, 177 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 98 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,688 babies since 1880, Elion is the sixth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 2,812 babies (1.9%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Elion
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 Elion and names like it
- Compare Elion and ElianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElion peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elion since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Elion.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elion alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.