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Elian

#147 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Elijah

Elian has been given to 15,380 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #147 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 2,448 recorded.

Babies named Elian, 2025

1 in 1,350

Elian over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01K2K3K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elian: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Elijah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elian means

Elian is a variant of Elijah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elian → Elijah. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is my god”, recorded in English with the source elements Eliyahu.

Origin, language, and formation

Elian is used in English and Faroese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elijah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,268 boys were recorded with the name Elian between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 2,448 in 2025; its best national rank was #147 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #355 in 2020 to #147 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #688 in 2015 to #147 in 2025.

In the United States, 112 girls were recorded with the name Elian between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2019; its best national rank was #9,225 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,499 in 2020 to #10,322 in 2025.

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 Elian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 1,350
2,448 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 698
0.14% of boys
Rank, 2025
#147
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elian 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 201%
Class of 302%
Grade of 1007%
School of 50031%

Put another way: gather 940 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elian. In a class of 30 the chance is 2%.

When Elians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elian was born before 2020 — so the typical Elian is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15,268
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.6% of all recorded uses (8,329).

Is Elian 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
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+208
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+541
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (2,448)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#147
2025

Spellings of Elian

Elian is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 27.6% against Elian's 0.36%.

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.

Where Elian is used

Across 2016–2025, Elian was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 513 boys, against 1 in 1,414 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 11,111).

9195 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 513
  2. 2Arizona1 in 680
  3. 3Texas1 in 704
  4. 4Colorado1 in 855
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 990
  6. 6Nevada1 in 1,075
  7. 7Connecticut1 in 1,149
  8. 8New York1 in 1,176

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Elian is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 68% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Elian around the world

Where Elian 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
    2000–2025
    #914
    in 2025
  • France
    1926–2025
    #497
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2024–2025
    #207
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,037
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Elian

People whose public names include Elian, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Elian in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Elian. Linked forms have their own page here.

ElanElionElianoEljan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Elian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#147
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 208
Best rank ever
#147
2025
Peak year
2025
2,448 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,268
Count in 2025
2,448

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,322
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 177
Best rank ever
#9,225
2022
Peak year
2019
11 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
112
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Elian

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

EliotElishaEliseoElielEliamElioLucianArianDarianEliezerKianEliasEliudElieDorianElihuElijaEliahElighEliottEliabKillianDavianEliyahu

Names with a curve like Elian

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elian, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MalakaiCallumTatumNikoCrewLennoxBaylorHayesAdonisColsonCallanStetson

Sibling names for Elian

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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