Elwyn
Elwyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 595th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1924104 births
- Best rank
- #595in 1912
- Since 1893
- 3,318people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,218 boys have been named Elwyn in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 104 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 39 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 100 girls have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Elwyn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 31 | |
| 1900s | 56 | |
| 1910s | 533 | |
| 1920s | 890 | |
| 1930s | 617 | |
| 1940s | 422 | |
| 1950s | 270 | |
| 1960s | 113 | |
| 1970s | 71 | |
| 1980s | 30 | |
| 1990s | 22 | |
| 2000s | 37 | |
| 2010s | 72 | |
| 2020s | 54 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Elwyn was the 629th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Elwyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orvilpeak 1921
- Arvilpeak 1924
- Virgelpeak 1920
- Harroldpeak 1923
- Eldenpeak 1922
- Maynardpeak 1922
- Cletuspeak 1922
- Norwoodpeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
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.