Elkan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elkan has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2021, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Elkan, 2022
1 in 677,000
Elkan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Elkan?
Elkan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elkan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elkan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elkans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elkan was born before 2014 — so the typical Elkan is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 42.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 42
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Elkan 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2021 (7)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.6% average annual change
Spellings of Elkan
Elkan is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 31.4% against Elkan'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.
Elkan around the world
Where Elkan 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 & Wales2005–2020#3,848in 2020
- Canada2021–2021#2,989in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Elkan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elkan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elkan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.