Elian

What Elian means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Elian yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #147 vs #914 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Elian?

US: Rising: up from #687 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2150 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 2,448 boys got the name (#147 that year). First in the US records in 1996.

How common

• About 1 in 698 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 7,998 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (3.54 per 1,000 boys), RI (3.52 per 1,000 boys), AZ (3.24 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Elian is #147 in the US and #914 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.6% of US babies named Elian were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elion54 US · 30 E&W
• Ilian57 US · 4 E&W
• Ellian23 US
• Alian14 US
• Illian11 US
• Eleon10 US
• Elean9 US
• Ellion6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Elian

Boys

• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Simon#230“sixpence coin”^*
• Zion#142Editor’s note Up from #227 in 2015 to #142 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 680 US boys in the 2025 records
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*

For a sister

• Amaya#180“the end”^*
• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Phoebe#157“bright”^*
• Meadow#286Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #673 in 2015, #286 in 2025
• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Elian’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.