Elius
Elius was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,823 among boys’ names; 120 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elius?
#7,823 among boys’ names, 2025
Elius rose from #11,075 in 2015 to #7,823 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 5.9 per million.
12 babies in 2021, the peak
Elius peaked in 2021, when 12 boys were given it, #6,817 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,823 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,516 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,405 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,105 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,817 | 6.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,794 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,346 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,739 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,116 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,075 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #11,203 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,650 | 5.3 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,496 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,077 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elius has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elius, and how old are they?
An estimated 119 Americans named Elius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 170 people named Elius (0 women and girls, 170 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 70 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 191,061 babies since 1880, Elius is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 10,901 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Elius
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 Elius and names like it
- Compare Elius and EliasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElius peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Elius.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elius alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.