girls:
512 births since 1904
#5204 (9th percentile)
boys:
2.9k births since 1885
#2347 (49th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1885
#4699 (39th percentile)
The name Elon is the #4,699 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,384 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 39.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,347 (48.8% percentile) for all time with 2,872 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,204 (8.9% percentile) for all time with 512 births since 1904.
Elon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1904 for girls). Birth data for Elon is available in 103 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (99 years for boys and 58 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 Elon has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Elon were boys.
For boys, Elon reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 24.2% percentile (ranked #705) with 125 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 125 births per million (ranked 24.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elon ranks #793 for boys (13.0% percentile) with 67 births per million, which is 53.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elon reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #870) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elon".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Elon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Elon is pronounced as EE-lahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-luhn, at 13.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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