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Elson

#4,905 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Elson has been given to 1,333 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #4,905 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Elson, 2025

1 in 166,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elson: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elson means

Elson is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Elson is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,333 boys were recorded with the name Elson between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,428 in 1924.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,520 in 2020 to #4,905 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,202 in 2015 to #4,905 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 Elson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,905
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elson 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elsons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elson was born before 1968 — so the typical Elson is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
809
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Choose a decade

1920s — 12.5% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Elson 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
+1,652
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+615
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,297
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.82×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 1924 (28)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,428
1924

Spellings of Elson

Elson is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 47.0% against Elson's 0.06%.

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 Elson is used

Across 1910–2025, Elson was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 522,240 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 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. Elson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elson around the world

Where Elson 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
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2024
    #5,872
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,569
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1945–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,905
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 615
Best rank ever
#1,428
1924
Peak year
1924
28 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,333
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Elson

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

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Sibling names for Elson

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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