Elwyn
Elwyn is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 13 boys were given it in 2025 (#15,583 among girls’ names and #6,559 among boys’, #11,100 among all names counting both); 3,336 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elwyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elwyn?
#6,559 among boys’ names, 2025
Elwyn rose from #11,080 in 2015 to #6,559 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 7.6 per million.
104 babies in 1924, the peak
Elwyn peaked in 1924, when 104 boys were given it, #629 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,559 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,925 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,494 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,113 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,109 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,521 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,445 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,122 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,451 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,080 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,241 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,976 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,867 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,515 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,208 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,627 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,454 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,596 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,257 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,559 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,269 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,149 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,122 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,021 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,209 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,653 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,685 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,716 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,232 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,170 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,156 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,879 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,606 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 23 | #1,686 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,115 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,381 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,337 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,525 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 40 | #1,172 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,156 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,581 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,259 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 50 | #992 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,259 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,115 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,019 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,291 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 52 | #925 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 63 | #814 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 44 | #962 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 41 | #1,011 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 49 | #893 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 52 | #862 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 44 | #946 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 53 | #837 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 57 | #823 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 69 | #735 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 76 | #680 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 71 | #740 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 69 | #744 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 77 | #714 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 79 | #696 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 73 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 90 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 82 | #702 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 94 | #660 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 104 | #629 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 96 | #654 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 89 | #693 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 90 | #684 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 93 | #663 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 75 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 88 | #659 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 72 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 56 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 73 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 54 | #703 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 47 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 47 | #595 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,065 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,063 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 11 | #913 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 11 | #846 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,041 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,292 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 8 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 8 | #862 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 7 | #882 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 7 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 7 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elwyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,336 Americans recorded as Elwyn, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Elwyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elwyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 853 Americans named Elwyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 32 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,140 people named Elwyn (89 women and girls, 1,051 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 997 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above 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).
Where are babies named Elwyn born?
The states with the most babies named Elwyn are Michigan, New York and Illinois, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 220 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 198 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 76 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 74 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 48 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Elwyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elwyn is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Elwyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,599 babies since 1880, Elwyn is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 38 babies (47%), again the second 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 Elwyn
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 Elwyn and names like it
- Compare Elwyn and ElwinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElwyn peaked in 1924.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elwyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Elwyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elwyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.