Elyan
Elyan was given to 51 boys in 2025, #2,580 among boys’ names; 383 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 Elyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elyan?
#2,580 among boys’ names, 2025
Elyan rose from #7,204 in 2015 to #2,580 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 29.9 per million.
51 babies in 2025, the peak
Elyan peaked in 2025, when 51 boys were given it, #2,580 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 41 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,580 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,009 | 23.8 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,071 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,748 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,816 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,782 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,396 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,446 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,417 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,863 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,204 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,334 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,176 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,828 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,136 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,212 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,189 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,871 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,235 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,597 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,406 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,209 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,084 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,997 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 383 Americans recorded as Elyan, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 51 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Elyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 380 Americans named Elyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 218 people named Elyan (38 women and girls, 180 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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).
How common is the spelling Elyan?
Elyan is a less common spelling of Elian: SSA has recorded 383 Elyan and 15,380 Elian since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,848 babies since 1880, Elyan is the fifth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 2,849 babies (1.8%), 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 Elyan
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 Elyan and names like it
- Compare Elyan and ElianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElyan peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Elyan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elyan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.