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Elhan

#5,930 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Elhan has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 2023. In 2025 it ranked #5,930 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Elhan, 2025

1 in 221,000

Elhan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elhan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elhan means

Elhan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Elhan is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 boys were recorded with the name Elhan between 2023 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,724 in 2024.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elhan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,930
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elhan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elhan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elhans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elhan was born before 2024 — so the typical Elhan is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
43
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Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Elhan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−206
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
93.8%
Peak was 2024 (16)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,724
2024

Spellings of Elhan

Elhan is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 30.3% against Elhan's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Elhan around the world

Where Elhan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2024–2025
    #1,359
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2009–2025
    #2,173
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Elhan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,930
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,724
2024
Peak year
2024
16 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Elhan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ElhamKahanMihanNohanZihanLihanZahanLohanIzhanElhaanSobhanMahanRidhanElhananAyhanDishanJihanSuhanCalhanSahanElhadjErhanJehanAlihan

Sibling names for Elhan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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