Elyn
Elyn was last recorded in 2024, when 13 babies were given it; 579 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,095, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
96 babies in 2010, the peak
Elyn peaked in 2010, when 96 babies were given it (90 girls, #2,175 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13 | #8,095 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,806 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,376 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,364 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,124 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,242 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,021 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,090 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,355 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,024 | 15.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 43 | #3,605 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,655 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,483 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,146 | 30.1 |
| 2010 | 90 | #2,175 | 50.6 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,916 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,352 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,075 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,969 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,424 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,688 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,123 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,942 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,542 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,849 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,604 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,324 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,082 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,858 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,846 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,110 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,986 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,922 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,531 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,359 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,164 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,173 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 579 Americans recorded as Elyn, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Elyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 561 Americans named Elyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 11 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 728 people named Elyn (680 women and girls, 48 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 505 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% 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 Elyn?
Elyn is a less common spelling of Elin: SSA has recorded 579 Elyn and 5,204 Elin since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 287,768 babies since 1880, Elyn is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 333 babies recorded by SSA was a Elyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Elyn
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 Elyn and names like it
- Compare Elyn and ElinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sElyn peaked in 2010.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Elyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.