girls:
45 births since 2014
#5671 (1st percentile)
boys:
79 births since 2017
#4507 (2nd percentile)
overall:
124 births since 2014
#7615 (2nd percentile)
The name Elysian is the #7,615 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 124 recorded births since 2014. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,507 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 79 births since 2017. For girls, it ranks #5,671 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 2014.
Elysian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2014 (2014 for girls and 2017 for boys). Birth data for Elysian is available in 8 out of the 10 years between 2014 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.
The name Elysian has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (63.7% of all recorded births). In 2023, 76.2% of babies named Elysian were boys. Interestingly, until around 2019, the name was more popular for girls (54.3% girls from 2014 to 2018), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (70.8% boys from 2019 to 2023).
For boys, Elysian reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #900) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elysian is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #900 (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million.
For girls, Elysian reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #953) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Elysian ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 51.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elysian".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Elysian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.5% confident that Elysian is pronounced as ih-LIH-zhuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-LIH-zhuhn, at 17.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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