Elik

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Elik has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2012. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Elik, 2012

1 in 610,000

Elik over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elik: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elik means

Elik is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Elik is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Elik between 2012 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2012; its best national rank was #11,201 in 2012.

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.

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How common is Elik?

Elik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012: 1 in 610,000; 6 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only: 1 in 316,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 422,543 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Elik 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 2012 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 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elik was born before 2012 — so the typical Elik is around 13 today.

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 6; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Elik 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: —; Not ranked then
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: 0%; Peak was 2012 (6)
Years since peak: 13; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,201; 2012

Spellings of Elik

Elik is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 47.6% against Elik's <0.01%.

Eric47.6%888,891
Erik8.4%157,461
Eli8.2%153,495
Elias6.9%129,263
Felix4.5%83,508
Erick4.3%79,463
Ellis2.7%50,403
Malik2.7%49,607

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.

Elik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #11,201; 2012
Peak year: 2012; 6 that year
First recorded: 2012
Last recorded: 2012
All-time count: 6
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Elik

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

Elieth Elice Eliad Elix Elish Elic Eliyan Elionai Eliger Eliase Elize Elijia Elizha Elioth Eliandro Elite Elikem Elidio Elianel Elii Eliath Molik Kelik Zalik

Sibling names for Elik

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

For a sister

Sofie Aubri Kaelynn Kendyl Bayleigh Audriana Cambria Farah

For a brother

Konnor Landry Harper Jovanni Maxim Channing Madden Jagger

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