Ellian
Ellian was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,433 among boys’ names; 117 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellian?
#4,433 among boys’ names, 2025
Ellian entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #4,433 in 2025.
23 babies in 2025, the peak
Ellian peaked in 2025, when 23 boys were given it, #4,433 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 12 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,433 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,946 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,110 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,154 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,675 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,165 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,999 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,764 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,821 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,234 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #12,901 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,594 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,404 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,715 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,451 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellian has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellian, and how old are they?
An estimated 116 Americans named Ellian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 2 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 168 people named Ellian (71 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 61 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 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).
How common is the spelling Ellian?
Ellian is a less common spelling of Elian: SSA has recorded 117 Ellian and 15,380 Elian since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,004 babies since 1880, Ellian is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 2,722 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Ellian
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 Ellian and names like it
- Compare Ellian and ElianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEllian peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ellian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ellian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.