girls:
95 births since 1988
#5621 (2nd percentile)
boys:
11.3k births since 1996
#1086 (76th percentile)
overall:
11.4k births since 1988
#2466 (68th percentile)
The name Elian is the #2,466 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,410 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 68.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,086 (76.3% percentile) for all time with 11,315 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,621 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 95 births since 1988.
Elian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for girls and 1996 for boys). Birth data for Elian is available in 28 out of the 36 years between 1988 and 2023 (26 years for boys and 13 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Elian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1996, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1988 to 1995), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (99.3% boys from 1996 to 2023).
For boys, Elian reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 74.6% percentile (ranked #232) with 810 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 810 births per million (ranked 74.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elian is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #232 (74.6% percentile) with 810 births per million.
For girls, Elian reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #939) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elian ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 65.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elian".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Elian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.1% confident that Elian is pronounced as EH-lee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-lee-uhn, at 17.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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