boys:
1.3k births since 1911
#3316 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1911
#6443 (17th percentile)
The name Elson is the #6,443 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,299 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 16.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,316 (27.7% percentile) for all time with 1,299 births since 1911.
Elson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (first recorded for boys in 1911). Birth data for Elson is available in 111 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Elson reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #531) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 29 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Elson ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 26.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elson".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Elson is pronounced as EHL-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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