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Elion

#2,492 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Eljon

Elion has been given to 286 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #2,492 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Elion, 2025

1 in 61,400

Elion over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elion: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Eljon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elion means

Elion is a variant of Eljon.

Origin, language, and formation

Elion is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eljon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Elion is pronounced /ɛliˈɔn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 286 boys were recorded with the name Elion between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,122 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,905 in 2020 to #2,492 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,979 in 2015 to #2,492 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 Elion?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,492
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elion 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elion. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elions were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elion was born before 2022 — so the typical Elion is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
67.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
286
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2020s — 67.1% of all recorded uses (192).

Is Elion 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
−370
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,413
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,487
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.1%
Peak was 2024 (70)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,122
2024

Spellings of Elion

Elion is not the most common spelling — Leon is, with 16.8% against Elion's 0.03%.

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 Elion is used

Across 1910–2025, Elion was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 806,477 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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. Elion has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elion around the world

Where Elion 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
    #1,007
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #3,664
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Elion by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,492
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,413
Best rank ever
#2,122
2024
Peak year
2024
70 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
286
Count in 2025
54

Names similar to Elion

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

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Sibling names for Elion

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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