girls:
4.9k births since 1893
#2416 (58th percentile)
boys:
152 births since 1992
#4434 (3rd percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1893
#3831 (50th percentile)
The name Elin is the #3,831 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,081 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 50.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,416 (57.7% percentile) for all time with 4,929 births since 1893. For boys, it ranks #4,434 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 152 births since 1992.
Elin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for girls and 1992 for boys). Birth data for Elin is available in 118 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023 (118 years for girls and 18 years for boys). 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 Elin has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elin reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 42.0% percentile (ranked #546) with 221 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 221 births per million (ranked 42.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Elin ranks #878 for girls (7.3% percentile) with 42 births per million, which is 19.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Elin reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #869) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elin".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Elin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Elin is pronounced as EH-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-lihn, at 30.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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