Elon
Elon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 156 births. Its best rank was 942nd, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1560.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2021234 births
- Best rank
- #942in 2018
- Since 1885
- 3,540people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,028 boys have been named Elon in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 234 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 35%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 512 girls have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 94 | |
| 1920s | 113 | |
| 1930s | 48 | |
| 1940s | 49 | |
| 1950s | 43 | |
| 1960s | 42 | |
| 1970s | 117 | |
| 1980s | 196 | |
| 1990s | 152 | |
| 2000s | 221 | |
| 2010s | 1,045 | |
| 2020s | 898 |
In 2021, its biggest year
Elon was the 957th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.
Names that rose and fell with Elon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shepardpeak 2022
- Linkpeak 2022
- Rhettpeak 2021
- Barrettpeak 2020
- Thorinpeak 2023
- Boonepeak 2024
- Lenoxpeak 2023
- Alaricpeak 2020
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.