Elyn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elyn has been given to 579 babies in the U.S. since 1945. 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 2010, with 90 recorded.
Babies named Elyn, 2024
1 in 257,000
Elyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Elyn?
Elyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 257,000
- 13 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 125,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 178,236 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 178,236 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elyn was born before 2012 — so the typical Elyn is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 65.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 550
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 65.5% of all recorded uses (372).
Is Elyn 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 2010 (90)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 79.7% average annual change
Spellings of Elyn
Elyn is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 29.9% against Elyn's 0.02%.
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 Elyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Elyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 770,382 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Missouri1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Elyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Elyn around the world
Where Elyn 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 & Wales2007–2019#4,001in 2019
- France1996–2025#2,286in 2025
- Canada2011–2011#2,838in 2011
- South Australia1979–1979#627in 1979
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.
Elyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Elyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.